Turkey commemorated the 77th anniversary of the death of secular leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on November 10, 2015.
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Tarık Günersel’s own literary roundup, covering everything from PEN Turkey’s commemoration of imprisoned writers to a call for Kurdish secularists to combine forces against ISIS.
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Tarik Gunersel describes the rise of ISIS in the Middle East – “the armed organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” – and how this radical body is feeding into the Turkish PM’s move away from all things secular.
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As the pro-government ATV Channel in Turkey censures a cubist painting by Picasso, Tarık Günersel thanks the group of American actors and other intellectuals for criticizing the new oppressive regime in Turkey, which he calls “Erdocracy,” a version of Islamofascism.
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