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Kaan Sekban responds to debate after Serhat Kılıç’s death: ‘Being single does not mean being alone’

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Kaan Sekban criticized remarks targeting single people following actor Serhat Kılıç’s death.
  • He said marriage and having children should not be treated as mandatory life choices and that people should not be judged for their personal decisions.

Kaan Sekban has pushed back against comments targeting single life after the death of actor Serhat Kılıç.

Sekban stressed that marriage and having children are not compulsory choices for everyone. “Being single does not mean being alone,” he said, objecting to judgments based on people’s decisions about how to live.

His remarks came amid a debate that began after Kılıç’s death and focused on the idea that single people are necessarily lonely.

Being single does not mean being alone.

· Kaan SekbanSekban rejected judgments directed at people who choose to remain single.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.