Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran | |
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.jpg) Ece Temelkuran speaking in Berlin, Germany, in May 2018 | |
| Born | 22 July 1973 |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Ankara University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Ece Temelkuran (born 22 July 1973, Izmir[1][2]) is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist for Milliyet (2000–2009) and Habertürk (2009 – January 2012), and a presenter on Habertürk TV (2010–2011).[1] She was fired from Habertürk after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre.[3][4][5][6] She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist".[citation needed] Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique.[1]
A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she has published 12 books, including two published in English (Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Verso 2010, and Book of the Edge, BOA Editions 2010).[1] In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide.[1][7] Her books include Ne Anlatayım Ben Sana! ("What am I Going to Tell You!", Everest, 2006), on hunger strikes by Turkish political prisoners.[8] She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008.[1]
Her first novel, Muz Sesleri ("Banana Sounds"), was published in 2010 and has been translated into Arabic[1] and Polish.[9]
In 2019, she published a nonfiction book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.[10]
Works
- Book of the Edge : Poems translator Deniz Perin, Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 2010. ISBN 9781934414361
- Turkey: the Insane and the Melancholy, translator Zeynep Beler, London : Zed Books, 2015. ISBN 9781783608904
- Women Who Blow on Knots translator Alexander Dawe, Cardigan : Parthian Books, 2017. ISBN 9781910901694
- Time of Mute Swans. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017. ISBN 9781628728149
- How to Lose a Country: the 7 steps from democracy to dictatorship. Fourth Estate Ltd., 2019. ISBN 9780008340612
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "About", ecetemelkuran.com Archived 2016-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Ece Temelkuran"", haberler.com
- ^ Al Akhbar (6 January 2012), Firing Turkey's Ece Temelkuran: The Price of Speaking Out Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ayla Albayrak (9 January 2012), "Turkish Colonel, Journalist Fired Over Kurdish Killings", The Wall Street Journal blog
- ^ Ece Temelkuran (27 January 2012) Turkish journalists are very frightened – but we must fight this intimidation, The Guardian
- ^ Ayça Tomaç, translator (19 January 2012). "Turkish "democracy": The two articles that caused the firing of Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran". Sendika.Org.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ BOA Editions, Ltd., Book of the Edge Archived 2015-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Ece Temelkuran Archived 2011-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Odgłosy rosnących bananów". ksiazkoweklimaty.pl. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ SHAH, VIKAS. "A Conversation with Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps". Retrieved 6 July 2020.
External links
- Ece Temelkuran (29 March 2020), "Corona-Neo-Fascism" as a deadly combo, Diem TV with Srecko Horvat, at 0:40:00.
- Ece Temelkuran (17 July 2016), "Yet again Turkey's children have awoken to darkness at dawn", The Guardian
- Ece Temelkuran (3 July 2016), "How My City Washes Away the Blood", The New York Times
- Recent English articles
- https://twitter.com/ETemelkuran
