Constanze Letsch on “Territorial Stigmatisation: Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood” (Transcript).
The book examines a controversial project to demolish and rebuild Istanbul’s historic, troubled Tarlabaşı neighbourhood, the impact it had on locals and what that tells us about today’s Turkey.
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Sep 2023
Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
Pallavi Narayan's book Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City (Routledge, 2022) reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has, in turn, be ... Show More
52m 6s
Nov 2021
Burhan Sönmez: Istanbul, Istanbul
Continuing our month-long season to celebrate the English PEN centenary, World Book Club talks to multi-award-winning Turkish-Kurdish writer and activist Burhan Sönmez about his unforgettable novel Istanbul, Istanbul.At once powerfully political and intensely personal, Istanbul, ... Show More
49m 26s
Apr 2023
«L’alphabet du silence», un roman sur la Turquie contemporaine
C’est un récit qui n’est exempt ni de colère, ni d’amour. Delphine Minoui est correspondante du journal « Le Figaro » en Turquie. Elle vit à Istanbul et s’appuie sur cette ville cosmopolite pour dérouler un texte qui évoque tout à la fois la question kurde, la liberté d’expressio ... Show More
19m 30s
Sep 2014
The War That Changed The World: Istanbul - Modernity and Secularism
Turkey emerged from the First World War as a new republic, with a secular and modern identity, attempting to break from its Ottoman past. How has this influenced Turkey today? With historians Aksin Somel and Ahmet Kuyas, and novelist Elif Shafak.
50m 2s