20 Sep: Author Ece Temelkuran on the struggles that have shaped Turkey

8 Aug 2016 | Events, mobile

GAZETECI-YAZAR ECE TEMELKURAN. FOTOGRAF:SEDAT SUNA

Award-winning Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran will discuss her latest release at Waterstones Trafalgar Square on 20 September

Join Index on Censorship’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg as she presents an evening with award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran to discuss her latest book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy.

Temelkuran will talk about how her beloved home country’s struggles and tragedies have shaped Turkey and how taking on the AKP government caused her to lose her job as a journalist. She also sees hope in the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the HDP party’s 2015 electoral breakthrough and in the kindness of the country’s ordinary people. Also featuring the Middle East correspondent for the Independent, Patrick Cockburn.

When: Tuesday 20 September, 7pm
Where: Waterstones, Trafalgar Square (map)
Tickets: £2 from Waterstones. And also available in-store or via telephone 0207 839 4411

Waterstones, Patrick Jones and Stephen Green again

14 Nov 2008 | Uncategorized

Caspar Melville of New Humanist has an update on the cancellation of a poetry reading in Cardiff after threats of disruption by Stephen Green of Christian Voice.

Gerry Johnson, Managing Director of Waterstone’s, has been in touch to explain the chain’s position. He claims that poet Patrick Jones deliberately set out to create controversy.

Read Johnson’s comments here.