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Ece Temelkuran

This is by way of a book review. Above is a screenshot from a talk by Turkish journalist, author, and campaigner Ece Temelkuran.

 

On 31 May 2019 she gave the talk in the Washington DC bookstore "Politics and Prose" about her latest book - 'How to Lose a Country'. Ece Temelkuran sounds a passionate warning about current similarities between populist and anti-democratic forces and authoritarian leaders and parties in many countries.

 

Including - let's be frank - in the UK.

 

As she says about Turkey: "Our dreams have been wrecked. Or our realities even, have been wrecked by this political insanity that is occurring.

... I wrote this book for Americans and for European people not to lose the time that we did, in Turkey.

... I hope you do a better job."

 

► View the video on YouTube.

► A thoughtful review from the Irish Times.

► Buy from an independent bookshop or from Hive - online U.K. booksellers who partner with independent bookshops.

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Uploaded on November 6, 2019
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