I’m an Istanbul-based writer and editor exploring what it means to be human in an age that increasingly forces us to confront the nature of our existence. My work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Thrillist, The Culture Trip, Interesting Engineering, The Bosphorus Review of Books, and more.

“Not until a machine can write a sonnet or a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain — that is, not only write it but know that it had written it. No mechanism could feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or miserable when it cannot get what it wants.”

- Geoffrey Jefferson, The Mind of Mechanical Man