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You must have noticed that our publication rate has dropped at Kedistan, not to say it has stood at zero for the past month.
Those faithful readers who have followed us since 2014 and who have often helped us immensely, financially speaking, in order to keep the publication on an even keel, have good reason to wonder at the magazine’s disappearance from the news stream. To them, we owe an honest explanation.
The first and essential reason for the slowdown is tied to the progressive exhaustion of our small group of volunteers, after almost 9 years when each of them has been on the job, particularly the core group responsible for the publishing and daily management of the magazine. This exhaustion being completed by a few health issues incompatible with the use of computers and screens. A kind of occupational wear and tear, a topic at the forefront of the news these days in France.
However, we have noticed that the archives of over 4 000 articles are still consulted on a regular basis, which is a reward for the work we have accomplished. Of course, this also encourages us to keep them available online.
You will have noticed that we have not attempted to compete with mainstream publications about the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria. The few items we relayed or the analyses we provided were sufficient in our view for an understanding of the breadth of this disaster and to establish its significance in the recent history of both Turkey and Syria. For the rest, we found the event sufficiently moving for none of us to wish to satisfy either voyeurism or pathos through useless and sensational articles.
Elections are upcoming in Turkey in this catastrophic context. They will undoubtedly be decisive. We are not indifferent to this issue, and a result that would see the AKP-MHP regime challenged would probably open up a pause allowing some of us to re-establish connections with friends, comrades and families, since all of us are currently personae non gratae in the country. Therefore we will be publish on this topic, without in any way believing that a “new” Kemalist majority would amount to a “revolution”.
You must have noticed, the times are not conducive to an overflow of enthusiasm.
Of course, we will continue publishing guest authors as much as possible and will be in front of our keyboards every time we will consider it necessary without the feeling of repeating ourselves over and over again.
Once again, thank you, dear readers, for continuing to pay attention to us, despite these absences.
Translation from French by Renée Lucie Bourges
