Uğur Mumcu Investigative Journalism Foundation continues to bring together the residents of the capital city through its meetings held every fifteen days under the title "18.30 Conversations," with guests and a wide range of topics from culture to art, literature to politics, economics to philosophy, and to make these meetings into books.
In the 5th book of "18.30 Conversations," Feride Acar, Faruk Bildirici, Nezih Danyal, Bahadır Selim Dilek, Seyhan Erdoğdu, Raşit Kaya, Çağatay Keskinok, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Onur Öymen, Turgut Özakman, Serdar Şahinkaya, Nedim Şener, Server Tanilli, Ece Temelkuran, Şahin Yenişehirlioğlu, Mustafa Yıldırım, and Dursun Yıldız have made significant contributions to our intellectual world.
The book brings together seventeen different topics in the Culture - Art, Media, Republican History, Foreign Policy, and Domestic Politics - Current Issues sections.
The book which covers subjects that hold significant places in our lives and appeals to those who wish to contemplate on these matters, provides a crucial contribution to our intellectual world with the diversity of the discussed topics.
From philosophy and art to caricature and humour, urban consciousness to strategic methods of water resources, the relationship between cinema and politics to the relationship between politics and media, from the history of the War of Independence to the construction of the Republic's economy, from the latest developments in the Middle East to the Iraq War, from women's rights to national issues, the book covers a wide range of topics. It concludes with a current question: "Where Turkey’s heading?”
