Ece Temelkuran

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Ece Temelkuran (2018)

Ece Temelkuran (born July 22, 1973 in Izmir ) is a Turkish lawyer , journalist and writer .

Life

Ece Temelkuran studied law at Ankara University . Since graduating from law school in 1995, she has published twelve books, including the novels Muz sesleri ( The Voice of the Bananas , 2010) and Düğümlere üfleyen kadınlar ( What good is the revolution to me if I can't dance , 2014). Her book Ağrının Derinliği (2008, 2010 in English under the title Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide ) deals with the tense relationship between the two nations after the genocide of the Armenians . Her work Book of the Edge (2010, original title: Kıyı kitabı , 2002) has also been published in English .

She wrote as a columnist for the daily newspapers Milliyet (2000–2009) and Habertürk (2009–2011) and presented her own series on Habertürk TV (2010 and 2011). She lost her job at Habertürk after her critical articles about the Turkish government's handling of the killing of more than 30 Kurdish civilians by Turkish fighter jets on December 28, 2011 on the Turkish-Iraqi border ( Uludere incident). In 2013 she became editor-in-chief of the left-wing daily BirGün for a few months .

Ece Temelkuran has received numerous awards for her journalistic work, including the Pen for Peace Award (2001). Her articles have appeared in the international press, including The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique .

Like other Turkish journalists who criticize the policies of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Ece Temelkuran publishes her articles on internet platforms and in the BirGün newspaper . Her work on the protests in Turkey in 2013 has been translated into numerous languages. In June 2013, at the invitation of Labor MP Seema Malhotra, Ece Temelkuran informed the British House of Commons about the protests around Istanbul's Gezi Park .

After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016, she complained about the lack of knowledge about the Islamist Gülen movement , which she described as one of the main problems in Turkey "since the 1970s", which created the political climate in Turkey and even left and right Got liberals on their side.

In order to avoid possible government repression , she has been living in exile in Zagreb since the end of 2016 . Regarding the outcome of the constitutional referendum, she said: "Erdoğan has once again succeeded in creating a mood through the conscious use of enemy images, threats and untruths, in which people have now even voted for a system that will harm them."

Literary works (selection)

  • Bütün kadınların kafası karışıktır (All women are confused, İletişim, 1996)
  • İç kitabı (The Inner Book, Everest, 2002)
  • Kıyı kitabı (The Book from the Edge, Everest, 2002)
    • Book of the Edge (award-winning English translation by Deniz Perin, 2010)
  • Muz sesleri (The Voice of the Bananas, Everest, 2010, Arabic 2012)
  • Düğümlere üfleyen kadınlar
    • What use is the revolution to me if I can't dance? : Roman . From the Turk. by Johannes Neuner. Hamburg: Atlantic, 2014
  • Euphoria and melancholy: Turkey in search of itself . Translation by Sabine Adatepe, Monika Demirel. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50373-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ece Temelkuran at haberler.com
  2. ↑ http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/buch-info/was-nuetzt-mir-die-revolution-wenn-ich-nicht-tanzen-kann-buch-7218/
  3. ↑ ecetemelkuran.com: About ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The title is an untranslatable play on words: it can be translated as The Depth of Pain ; the word ağrı (pain) is also the Turkish name of Ararat and the Turkish province of Ağrı and their capital, hence the title in English @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecetemelkuran.com
  4. ↑ a b c ecetemelkuran.com: About ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecetemelkuran.com
  5. ↑ http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/firing-turkey's-ece-temelkuran-price-speaking-out
  6. ↑ http://www.gazeteciler.com/medya-kosesi/ece-temelkurandan-hukumete-uludere-resti-45554h.html
  7. ↑ Ece Temelkuran artık BirGün'ü yönetmiyor , Radikal, October 21, 2013.
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecetemelkuran.com
  9. ↑ http://ceftus.org/2013/06/20/turkey-everything-you-dont-want-to-know/#.UdElgz7E3Ss
  10. ↑ "The worst time to give up Turkey" , August 14, 2016
  11. ^ "" Turkey is a realm of fear "" , rheinpfalz.de of April 13, 2017 (subscription required) and in print editions of other newspapers z. B. Nürnberger Nachrichten of April 21, 2017, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Temelkuran, Ece
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Izmir