Since the failed coup of July 2016,
Turkey’s president has been working overtime to silence his enemies and
control what his supporters hear, see, and learn. He has purged the
ministries and the military, jailed journalists, academics, writers and
social justice activists in the thousands, taken evolution out of the
school curriculum, brought in lessons on jihad, railed almost daily
against secularism, pontificated just as often on the sacred obligations
of mothers and wives, and suppressed every media outlet that has dared
to challenge him. He has fired an untold number of civil servants,
schoolteachers, academics and clerical workers—sometimes for nothing
more than having kept an account with the wrong bank. ...
Publishers have been hard hit. The
bravest have continued to champion work they value, even if there is a
risk it might be viewed as criminal, obscene, or (worst of all)
dangerous for young minds. Others have chosen the safety of
self-censorship. Turkey is awash with writers whose words can no longer
be seen or heard. But walk into any bookstore, and there is one slim
volume you will never fail to find. Its title is Madonna in a Fur Coat. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/the-only-dissident-novel-for-sale-in-turkey/
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