Sakat Muhabbet

Sakat Muhabbet is a Turkish interview program that treats disability as a full public question: medical, cultural, political, emotional, and practical. Its conversations move slowly enough for difficult subjects to become legible. The show often begins with a personal account, then follows that account outward into systems, language, institutions, and everyday exclusion. An episode on amputation, for example, does not reduce the subject to recovery. It stays with infection, repeated surgery, wounds that do not close, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, plastic surgery, and phantom pain, while also making space for the guest’s own sense of what relief might mean. Other episodes widen the frame through art and philosophy. A conversation with Özlem Kevser Birkan uses Kintsugi to consider brokenness, repair, patience, and the refusal to hide marks of damage. The program also looks at representation. In an episode on filming madness, the discussion turns to schizophrenia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, ethics, and the problem of people being treated as if they cannot speak or decide for themselves. Autism is approached through diagnosis, invisible disability, exhaustion, isolation, community, and activism. Hearing loss and cochlear implants open into questions about language development, approval systems, induction loops, Turkish cinema access, and the lack of reliable disability data. The feminist episodes are among the show’s clearest statements of purpose. They describe disabled women organizing on March 8, negotiating routes, banners, chairs, interpretation, and the simple but difficult demand to be present. Sakat Muhabbet’s strength is its refusal to separate personal story from public consequence. It is warm, plainspoken, and serious, with a radio sensibility that favors explanation over performance. The result is a show for listeners interested in disability rights, feminist organizing, accessibility, and the social meaning of injury, diagnosis, care, repair, and presence.