Ece Temelkuran

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Ece Temelkuran
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Ece Temelkuran speaking in Berlin, Germany, in May 2018
Born (1973-07-22) 22 July 1973 (age 48)
Izmir, İzmir Province, Turkey
NationalityTurkish
Alma materAnkara University
OccupationJournalist

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]

2021 saw the publication of her non-fiction book “Together:10 Choices for a Better Now” extolling the virtues of humanity and the need to be “together”.

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
  • Together:10 Choices for a Better Now. Fourth Estate Ltd., 2021. ISBN 9780008393809

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "About", ecetemelkuran.com Archived 2016-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Ece Temelkuran"", haberler.com
  3. ^ Al Akhbar (6 January 2012), Firing Turkey's Ece Temelkuran: The Price of Speaking Out Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Ayla Albayrak (9 January 2012), "Turkish Colonel, Journalist Fired Over Kurdish Killings", The Wall Street Journal blog
  5. ^ Ece Temelkuran (27 January 2012) Turkish journalists are very frightened – but we must fight this intimidation, The Guardian
  6. ^ Ayça Tomaç, translator (19 January 2012). "Turkish "democracy": The two articles that caused the firing of Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran". Sendika.Org.
  7. ^ BOA Editions, Ltd., Book of the Edge Archived 2015-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Ece Temelkuran Archived 2011-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Odgłosy rosnących bananów". ksiazkoweklimaty.pl. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  10. ^ SHAH, VIKAS. "A Conversation with Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps". Retrieved 6 July 2020.

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