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Turkey : the insane and the melancholy / Ece Temelkuran ; translated by Zeynep Beler.

by Temelkuran, Ece, 1973- author.

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London : Zed Books, 2016.

Turkey -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Turkey -- Politics and governmenty -- 1980-

9781783608898 (pb) :

1783608897 (pb)

296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Introduction. Yesterday ; Today ; Tomorrow -- Yesterday. The origins of forgetting ; How is indifference learned? ; Orphans, fathers and resentment ; "Such a generation we shall raise..." ; Fascism or downright vengeance? ; Turkey's disorganised photo album -- Today/morning. A woman's "unindictable" murder ; "Us" and "them" ; The hour of "Long live our Padishah!" ; The bloodiest front in social projects ; A split-meaning, split-screen way of watching : news hour in Turkey ; Goddamn it! ; The grey daubs of the city proving presence through absence ; The mesmerising vulgarity ; Children of the "Zero Problem" policy : the expedient and inexpedient ; The meatballs of "the people" beat Macbeth to death ; Opposite meanings of the peace sign : Kurds and Turks ; Official memory versus actual memory -- Tomorrow : "What will become of this bridge of ours?". Appetite and hope ; Down! down! down! down! ; Women and children first! ; Middle Easternisation and the question "should we go?" ; The "safety valve" that cannot be located ; Broken bridges, new bridges.

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