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BAKIM / CARE
Word of the Week Mar 26, 2026

BAKIM / CARE

Bakım, or care, is one of those deceptively soft words, the sugar coating over a complex vitamin pill, a soft towel draped over the hard machinery of an economy. It suggests tenderness and love. What it rarely suggests is exhaustion, lost income, or the quiet arithmetic of inequality.

Nazlan Ertan