The community-based media platform KARAKAYA TALKS has for years been addressing global power dynamics, violence, and crises, which in public debates are often discussed separately, in a simplified manner, or in a depoliticized sense. The experience of its founders, Esra Karakaya and Djenna Wehenpohl, shows that whilst there is empathy, the bigger picture is missing. Crises are reported on in parallel, but rarely considered in relation to one another, regardless of how closely they are linked geographically or historically. 

However, in the ongoing coverage of geographies such as Sudan, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, or Iran, there are recurring patterns: in political interests, in media narratives, in the hierarchization of suffering, and in the forms of dehumanization that legitimize or normalize violence. At the same time, events in these countries have long shaped global public discourse. Through social media, news feeds, and algorithmic logic, images and voices from different crisis contexts enter the collective consciousness in parallel—yet they are also quickly forgotten. In the process, both the political context and a sense of empathy are lost. Millions of people are simultaneously mourning the loss of loved ones, their homeland, physical integrity, or their future, and yet their experiences often appear in the public consciousness as separate events. A gap emerges between the lived reality of violence and its portrayal in the media, which distorts whose suffering appears close and relevant. 

Against this backdrop, the Talk Show: Multiple Crises is conceived as a public space for dialogue, in which different contexts of violence are not considered in isolation but in relation to one another. The focus is on the question of what becomes visible this way: Which patterns recur? Which narratives legitimize violence? Which forms of collective amnesia shape public debates? And what role does Germany play, as a media, political, and social agent, in the perception of these crises? 

The talk show is part of the curatorial framework Relational Work, Relational Power established by KARAKAYA TALKS. It creates a space where different perspectives come together, knowledge is shared, and complex interconnections become visible, without reducing the multifaceted nature of the topics to simple answers.