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Recommended reading: "I will never see the world again" by Ahmet Altan [1] Great book by a writer who was locked up "for life" by the indiscriminate purge in
by paulette449 3y ago
Recommended reading:
"I will never see the world again" by Ahmet Altan [1]
Great book by a writer who was locked up "for life" by the indiscriminate purge in the aftermath of Turkey's failed coup. The book is about the power of writing and the imagination even from behind bars.
Spoiler: Ahmet was released from prison (and re-arrested and re-released) [2]
[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44422074-i-will-never-see-the-world-again https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44422074-i-will-never-se...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Altan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Altan
- atahanacar 3y agoI wouldn't recommend anything written by a Taraf worker to anyone. For years, they had been publishing blatantly made up stories about "Kemalist military planning yet another coup against Erdoğan" and slandering some generals specifically, costing the generals their lives. When asked a source for all their claims, they answered "someone drops secret documents in front of our door". This dude, along with Erdogan has many innocent people's blood on their hands. It is very funny how Erdoğan's Islamist friends suddenly became the victim after they fell apart, while they were the ones doing his dirty work. Their tyranny killed thousands, and negatively and directly affected the lives of millions, including schoolchildren who couldn't enter a decent university they deserved because cultists literally distributed the answers of the entrance exam in their "cram schools" to their students. Anyone going against them had their lives turned to hell.