On Sunday, February 1, at 6 PM, in New York City, poets gathered for a poetry reading at Ray’s Pizza and Bagels, at an event hosted by Other Rooms Press. The event also featured an open mic.

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On February 6, 2026, the "Gebaute Gemeinschaft - Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and Life 12,000 Years Ago" exhibition opened at Berlin's James-Simon-Galerie. Scheduled to be running until July 19, 2026, the show featured 93 archaeological artifacts brought from Turkey from Göbeklitepe and the Taş Tepeler region.

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On February 7, 2026, the Tenkil Museum—a German civil society initiative documenting post-2016 human rights abuses in Turkey—opened its latest traveling exhibition "The Tenkil Catastrophe: Confronting and Healing" in Hanau, Germany, attracting thousands of visitors. Held at Schloßplatz 1, the event introduced the "Media & Tenkil" section for the first time, spotlighting media's role in the systematic oppression known as "tenkil" (exclusion, expulsion, and eradication).

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The White House has deleted a post on Donald Trump's social media account containing a video portraying former United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama as apes. The video triggered a backlash from American politicians, including from Trump's own Republican Party.

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On January 12, Downtown Music Gallery in New York City hosted a public reading and discussion featuring Elliott Sharp and Joe Fonda, followed by their first-ever live performance together as a duo. The event also included extended, in-person interviews conducted by Bruce Gallanter focused on the artists’ recently published books.

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