Turkey has place in a Europe of “liberté, egalité, and fraternité” says Pamuk - Literature : news, interview | euronews

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If you had googled "Turkey" this morning on the English news, you would have found on the first page this article, which I posted yesterday on GroundReport (and the day before on my blog Turkish Diary). It appeared on The Huffington Post (which I don't know, but it doesn't matter, as long as it appears so high on Google).

The title is: What Israel ( Read more... )

Here is a report by my friend Alberto and me about women literature. It was shot in Frankfurt, at the Book Fair, and two of the writers we interviewed are Turkish.

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I'm trying to figure out how to go to Cyprus from Turkey without violating the Cyprus law as well as an international embargo.
I'll give more details to those who are interested. I will land in Istanbul on July 18, would like to be in Cyprus (both ( Read more... )

I'll take a few minutes to resume what I'm doing with my life these days.

Till the end of February I'm working as Agenda coordinator at EN. In the meantime, I'm asked sometimes to do other things as well, since the Agenda job takes only 3 hours and a half a day. So, from tomorrow till Sunday I will also work as Le Mag coordinator. Basically, it ( Read more... )

Actually, I got back yesterday, but I was too tired to write about it.

It was fun. Great. Fun. I had never lived Istanbul like that. I had always been there as a journalist, or as someone engaged in human rights issues and the Kurdish question, so I had always seen the city from a very peculiar point of view. This time I was a tourist, even if I had ( Read more... )

I overslept again yesterday: after more than 8 hours in the night, I slept almost 3 more hours in the afternoon. And a walk was enough to suck out all my energies, so I came back home exhausted ( Read more... )