"The mysterious year 1444 came to an end in July, and we stepped into the new era awaiting us with its hypothetical identity. Erdoğan’s victory in the general elections held in May must be one of the heralds of this new age, for which we hold great hopes. Our hope is for the sun of Islam to illuminate our country and our world, and for us to begin living a life worth living as free Muslims and true human beings. In contrast, we are suffering from the fact that the absurd scenes seen in our country, a tangle of contradictions, are becoming more striking with each passing day. The spectacle of a synthesis (!) that is simultaneously Islamic and secular, national and cosmopolitan, local and foreign, honest and hypocritical—in short, both crooked and straight—and the fact that this spectacle is becoming normalized, leads one to anxiety. The picture on the cover perfectly illustrates Turkey’s landscape; on either side of the hijab, a hijab-like style and a lack of hijab stand adjacent. What we want to draw attention to here is not so much the women’s attire, but rather the contradiction that becomes concrete through these clothes. We are carrying the photograph that depicts this table of contradictions to our magazine’s cover and calling it the “Absurd Turkish Tragedy.” In his article titled “The Society Being Frankensteinized,” Ömer Emre Akcebe explains that we are facing a moral cancer gnawing at the body from within, and asserts that where morality cannot be institutionalized, neither law, nor society, nor the state can exist. In his article titled “The Murder That Exposed the Banana Republic: The New Turkey in Its Death Throes,” İbrahim Tatlı paints a portrait of an ideal-less and immoral country where there is freedom to commit every kind of crime from top to bottom, where every kind of corruption and injustice is permitted, where every kind of absurdity is applauded, and where the truth can find no place for itself. In his article titled “Who Are These People and What Is Happening Here? -What are these 'some things' anyway?-, Yavuz Arslan, keeping in mind as much as possible that the “perception of reality” is distortable and that it can be manipulated, explains the necessity of connecting the consciousness to an “Adult” “Knower” and striving to gain an “understanding of the addressee” as the healthiest and most direct way for “children,” who are addressed by a “life” whose essence is “religion,” to free themselves from conjectures. In her article titled “The Hell of the Same,” Hanife Kındır touches upon how human nature is being interfered with, how single-type model humans are multiplying, and how troubles begin with man’s alienation from himself. M. Taha İnci conducted an inquiry on secularism. In this inquiry, he asked researchers, writers, sociologists, and scholars about the monstrosity that befalls society as it drifts away from religion.