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\"Sour-Patch-Kids\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a friend who visits the Sour Times<\/a> Web site three times a day. She says it\u2019s like watching other people masturbate. \u201cThe difference is that they are masturbating on your image,\u201d she says. Here \u201cimage\u201d refers to the Sour Times article written about her, while \u201cmasturbate\u201d refers to anonymous users\u2019 attempts at describing her. She calls the resultant articles \u201cjuices.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t help but look at their juices,\u201d she says. When asked about why she is so obsessed with other people\u2019s juices and this Web site, she replied: \u201cBecause I fucking CARE for my reputation, Kaya. Sour Times is where your reputation is made, where your name can get destroyed. For many people out there it is the only source of information about me. Don\u2019t you care about what people say about you? I do!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sour Times (in Turkish, Ek\u015fi S\u00f6zl\u00fck) is a big deal in Turkey. A combination of Urban Dictionary (likewise \u201ca veritable cornucopia of streetwise lingo, posted and defined by its readers\u201d), the Meaning of Liff<\/i> (it is somewhat similar to Douglas Adams and John Lloyd\u2019s 1983 dictionary of undefined or undefinable things) and Wikipedia, Sour Times may be the most exciting Web site created by a Turkish citizen, ever. Sour Times users start articles with mesmerizing speed during the day; their creations, thousands of them, appear on the left frame of the Sour Times homepage, where they are listed in chronological order. Here are some recent examples: \u201cThe monkey who doesn\u2019t believe in evolution.\u201d \u201cThe nickname Ataturk would use if he was a Sour Times user.\u201d \u201cGirls who are good at finding torrent files on the web.\u201d And my favorite: \u201cMen who get their socks off as soon as they get home.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If an article contains more than twenty entries it is divided into multiple pages. Popular individuals measure the success of their personalities in the Sour Times community using those page numbers. \u201cI have ten pages on Sour Times\u201d is another way of saying you\u2019re a successful person with prospects for a better life. But those pages may, on the other hand, also contain the worst things ever said about you. This is why people regularly check their Sour Times pages\u2014to see whether an embarrassing detail of their character is revealed to the public. Turkish employers inspect the Web site before job interviews; reading a prospective lover\u2019s Sour Times page is a natural first step of the Turkish way of mating.<\/p>\n

I have two Sour Times pages devoted to my name. They are listed under the minimalist heading \u201cKaya Gen\u00e7.\u201d Mine is a modest page count, especially when compared to that of the current Turkish prime minister, whose article spreads to over 3,026 pages and contains more than thirty thousand entries. Some of the entries on my page have the dry tone of Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>; the one that refers to my alleged popularity among women is written in a more colorful style. A 842-word entry accuses me of trying too hard to be successful; another describes me as a writer obsessed with the ideas of \u201cDel\u00f6z and Gattari\u201d [sic]. Of course, I won\u2019t repeat the good things said about me (which, sadly, are not many).<\/p>\n

Sour Times was created by Sedat Kapano\u011flu in 1999. A software programmer since primary school, Kapano\u011flu\u2019s first program, Patient 1.0, was a hospital management software. It didn\u2019t sell because of its expensive price tag; when Kapano\u011flu repriced it at five dollars it still didn\u2019t sell (this time it was too cheap). Born in Eski\u015fehir, a city famous for its university campus and beer culture, Kapano\u011flu adopted a pseudonym (SSG) which represented his future ambitions as an entrepreneur (it stands for \u201cSedat Software Group,\u201d with echoes of Rambo: One Man Army). He spent his youth writing elevator software and working for the Turkish State Meteorological Service. In one interview he described purchasing a sound card with his first paycheck. He bought a Casio wristwatch with his second.<\/p>\n

A fan of the eponymous Portishead song, Kapano\u011flu started Sour Times after he read The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i>. Adams\u2019s book gave him the idea for a digital platform that contains everything in the universe.<\/p>\n

In its first year the Web site earned him around eleven dollars. According to the PatronTurk website (“TurkishBoss”) this amount has recently risen to $100,000 dollars a month. Once a Microsoft employee in the company\u2019s Redmond Campus, Kapano\u011flu was quick to quit his job after realizing the business potential of Sour Times.<\/p>\n

Kapano\u011flu\u2019s earnings come from advertising revenues. For advertisers the strength of the project is its extremely critical, no-BS approach to life. It was this same approach that has gotten the site editors into trouble in recent years; a number of celebrities have sued the site for libel. There were other complaints which mostly focused on articles considered blasphemous or as containing hate speech, mainly against Muslims.<\/p>\n

Ali Emre Buka\u011f\u0131l\u0131, a civil engineer, has taken a number of writers and artists to court. He successfully sued the Turkish publisher of Richard Dawkins and the pianist Faz\u0131l Say in court and lately has turned his attention to Kapano\u011flu and thirty-nine Sour Times contributors whom he has accused of writing blasphemous entries. Buka\u011f\u0131l\u0131\u2019s indictment against Kapano\u011flu\u2019s team was accepted in an Istanbul court last week. He cites a Sour Times article about Mohammad which refers to the prophet as a child abuser. Although the site\u2019s editors say they deleted that entry immediately after it was written, there are other entries which Buka\u011f\u0131l\u0131 accuses the site of not moderating with similar rigor.<\/p>\n

So what would happen if Sour Times was forced to close? It has long been an important medium where people write whatever they like about whomever they choose whenever they desire. It has also become popular among professional critics who find it difficult to call a spade a spade in articles they pen under their real names. After all, artists and authors can\u2019t easily phone jamesbond_lover or RTD2; it is even more difficult to sue killingmesoftly2013 in court. Most Turkish intellectuals would agree on the necessity for a forum for anonymous criticism of the high and mighty, and so far the Sour Times has been the best outlet.<\/p>\n

The truth is, even if the editors should decide to pull the plug at some point, the Sour Times architecture isn\u2019t going anywhere; in the years since its founding, numerous clones of the site have been created, some edited by Islamists, others by, say, communists, or members of particular professions. Perhaps the fast times of masturbation and irreverence are nearing their end, to be replaced by an era of more moderate, and less sour, information dissemination. The latest example of these clone sites is Cogito S\u00f6zl\u00fck, whose motto is \u201cCome, come, whoever you are!\u201d This quote\u2014from the Sufi mystic Jalal ad-D\u012bn Muhammad Rumi\u2014may hint at the larger change wrought by Kapano\u011flu\u2019s website in 1999.\u00a0A far cry, after all, from Portishead.<\/p>\n

Kaya Gen\u00e7 is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul.<\/i><\/p>\n

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