Izmir, 1714. Engraving by Henri Abraham Chatelain. Wikicommons/Atlas historique, Public domain.
Responding to your kind invitation to a conference,
30 years ago, I was a leftist university student, living in exactly the same house that I am living in now, then with my mother. I remember how much my mother worried each time our doorbell rang from downstairs. Neither she nor I felt safe in our own house. And the threat came not from some criminal gang but the “security forces.” The tragedy or the irony of the matter is that three decades on, I still feel unsafe in the same house for exactly the same reason.
