AboutMe
My name is Alp Ucar, and I am currently an intern reporter at the Erzhausen-based Turkish-medium newspaper Artı 49. Alongside my profession, I am also on the verge of graduating from my master program in Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main.
My recent job application for a journalistic training program at Deutsche Welle has led me to create The Brawling Relatives Project. This project aims to address the following assignment prompt: "Knocking on doors. Neighbors - of the good or the bad, of the big or the small ones." The concept of neighbor evokes a geopolitical connotation for me in that the relations that we establish with our neighbors as a country, be it good or bad in nature, or big or small in significance, not only set the parameters of history and culture but also impact domestic and international politics, economy, society,
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security, and national identity. In this project, I aim to give a voice to Turkey's four neighbors-Greece, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Syria-to express their opinions about their socio-political and cultural relations with Turkey. To this end, I have interviewed a citizen of each neighboring country and analyzed their responses in an open-minded if critical manner to portray their perception of similarities and differences their counties bear to and from Turkey.
The interviews alternated between serious and light-hearted tones. No matter how restrained and problematic neighborly relationships can be at times, cultural practices and a shared history bring all these countries together through the language of food, music, and dance.