Writing
Columns by Berna Onk published on Olay Gazete and Eurovizyon. Newest first.
Before Turna was born I made big promises about screens. Now sometimes I open one just so dinner can happen. We live in the same house — yet communication is gone. Digital loneliness: alone inside the crowd.
Read full article →Do not read this as a migrant story alone. It is the story of slowly burning out — years of following rules under the Ankara Agreement while life, and fear for family back home, keeps moving.
Read full article →Since learning of my mother's illness in November, the way I look at life and what I prioritise has shifted. Sometimes one sentence in a doctor's room changes a person forever.
Read full article →Since 19 November, life has lost every rhythm I knew. When health is gone, everything shrinks to one truth: without health, nothing else holds.
Read full article →November is not only a month — it is a station of the soul. Because in November, Turna arrived — and every storm found another kind of balance.
Read full article →Once we learned the world with morning papers and coffee. Now we scroll first — and become prosecutor, judge and jury in a single frame.
Read full article →Once a door to freedom; today our brightest shop window and darkest well — a stage that dazzles and isolates in equal measure.
Read full article →Six years in London: shared tables, workplaces, laughter and tears. When self-interest enters the room, few care for another person's tears.
Read full article →A suitcase of love, some fear, some hope — and London as the city that rewrote everything. Neither fully there, nor fully here.
Read full article →8 March looks ordinary, yet it is a revolution: a cry of resistance for women's freedom across the world.
Read full article →Sometimes I hold the edge of a sentence, sometimes morning silence. Writing is intention — and often we understand who we are most clearly when we write.
Read full article →A collection of my columns and features published on Eurovizyon — all in one place.
Read full article →In a world that never stops running, learning to breathe and find mental balance is essential for body and soul.
Read full article →On a golden savannah morning a herd of gazelle grazes in deceptive calm — nature is never only peaceful.
Read full article →We only see the outside, yet almost everything happens within. Asking for help is not giving up — it is refusing to quit.
Read full article →What makes human bonds last is loyalty, trust and fidelity — three bridges that carry us toward one another.
Read full article →A June morning, summer hope and the weight of a broken world — opened with a passage from Şule Gürbüz.
Read full article →A visit to London's Frameless Immersive Art Experience — a collection that leaves visitors in awe.
Read full article →Grey streets, foreign words, and the ache of being far from family and home.
Read full article →Concerts, book signings and celebrations from Türkiye to London — a crowded, colourful May.
Read full article →The United Kingdom's first circus museum has opened in Blackpool — a walk through the history of circus entertainment.
Read full article →International Women's Day celebrations and exhibitions of women artists who inspire far beyond one community.
Read full article →March in London: festivals, museums and the healing power of art — a fairer world still feels possible.
Read full article →Two Turkish artists in London — Refik Anadol and Eser Gündüz — invite us to think and feel through digital and earth.
Read full article →A village folk tale of a young bride, illness and a community that answers with lament.
Read full article →Folk songs as freedom of the spirit — and those who found comfort behind bars from earlier columns.
Read full article →A folk legend of unspoken love and a woman who answers gossip with the lines of a song.
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