Ersun Augustinus Kayra

Ersun Augustinus Kayra

Ersun Augustinus Kayra is an Istanbul-based writer. His essays trace the moral life of ordinary people and the ethical tensions that surface in public institutions — especially where medicine, trust and conscience meet. His work has appeared in Stimmen der Zeit, Plough and Le Verbe.

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An expert works to clear a mass of marine mucilage, a thick, slimy substance made up of compounds released by marine organisms, from Turkey's Sea of Marmara at the Caddebostan shore, on the Asian side of Istanbul, June 8, 2021. (AP/Kemal Aslan)

Istanbul's 'sea snot' is a test case for ecological sin

If ecological sin is real, then ecological repentance must be real, too: pipes that work, standards that bite, and the stubborn, persistent work of repair.

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