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Berna Onk — Editorial & Media Insights
Published columns and commentary — evidence of editorial and content writing delivery for partner outlets.
Digital Loneliness: Growing Distant in the Same Home
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 —…
Not Waiting — Burning Out: The Invisible Cost of the Ankara Agreement
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 wh…
My Taste Has Changed — Or the Taste of My Life Has
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…
The Value of Ordinary Days
Since 19 November, life has lost every rhythm I knew. When health is gone, everything shrinks to one truth: without health, nothing else…
A Life Rebuilt on the Threshold of November
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 ba…
The Social Media Court
Once we learned the world with morning papers and coffee. Now we scroll first — and become prosecutor, judge and jury in a single frame.
The Glossy Lie of Social Media
Once a door to freedom; today our brightest shop window and darkest well — a stage that dazzles and isolates in equal measure.
The Mirror of a Person, the Shadow of Self-Interest
Six years in London: shared tables, workplaces, laughter and tears. When self-interest enters the room, few care for another person's tears.
Exile Grows Inside Us
A suitcase of love, some fear, some hope — and London as the city that rewrote everything. Neither fully there, nor fully here.
Not One Day — a Lifelong Revolution
8 March looks ordinary, yet it is a revolution: a cry of resistance for women's freedom across the world.
The Club of Those Who Find Themselves in Writing
Sometimes I hold the edge of a sentence, sometimes morning silence. Writing is intention — and often we understand who we are most clearl…
My Eurovizyon Articles
A collection of my columns and features published on Eurovizyon — all in one place.
Calm Your Mind and Balance Your Life
In a world that never stops running, learning to breathe and find mental balance is essential for body and soul.
The Two Faces of Justice
On a golden savannah morning a herd of gazelle grazes in deceptive calm — nature is never only peaceful.
A Journey into the Depths of Self-Compassion
We only see the outside, yet almost everything happens within. Asking for help is not giving up — it is refusing to quit.
Loyalty: the Touchstone of Relationships
What makes human bonds last is loyalty, trust and fidelity — three bridges that carry us toward one another.
I Am on a Long, Narrow Road
A June morning, summer hope and the weight of a broken world — opened with a passage from Şule Gürbüz.
June — Frameless in London
A visit to London's Frameless Immersive Art Experience — a collection that leaves visitors in awe.
Loneliness Miles Away: Letters from Exile
Grey streets, foreign words, and the ache of being far from family and home.
A May Full of Events
Concerts, book signings and celebrations from Türkiye to London — a crowded, colourful May.
A New Stop for Fun: the UK's First Circus Museum
The United Kingdom's first circus museum has opened in Blackpool — a walk through the history of circus entertainment.
8 March, the Women's Museum and AWAN
International Women's Day celebrations and exhibitions of women artists who inspire far beyond one community.
On the Turkish Community Art Exhibition and War Portraits
March in London: festivals, museums and the healing power of art — a fairer world still feels possible.
On This Is a Grey World and Echoes of the Earth
Two Turkish artists in London — Refik Anadol and Eser Gündüz — invite us to think and feel through digital and earth.
Meyrik
A village folk tale of a young bride, illness and a community that answers with lament.
Folk Song Stories
Folk songs as freedom of the spirit — and those who found comfort behind bars from earlier columns.
Eledim Eledim
A folk legend of unspoken love and a woman who answers gossip with the lines of a song.
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