Ece Temelkuran (born 22 July 1973) is a Turkish journalist and author.

Biography

Ece Temelkuran was born on 22 July 1973 in

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. She was a columnist for ''

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'' (2000–2009) and ''

Habertürk ''Habertürk'' (), abbreviated as ''HT'', was a high-circulation Turkish newspaper. It was established on 1 March 2009 by Ciner Media Group, drawing on the brand of Ciner's Habertürk TV. It ceased publication on 5 July 2018. The newspaper s ...

'' (2009 January 2012), and a presenter on

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(2010–2011)."About"
ecetemelkuran.net She was fired from ''Habertürk'' after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre. She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist". Her columns have also been published in international media such as ''

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'' and '' Le Monde Diplomatique''. A graduate of

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's Faculty of Law, she lived in Beirut, Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels. In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the

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, during which time she wrote ''Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide''. For her book ''Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy, s''he won the

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First Book award for her novel ''Women Who Blow On Knots'' and the Ambassador Of New Europe Award. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's ''Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award'' in 2008. From March 2021 to September 2023 she was a fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg, working on a project "A New Vocabulary for 21st Century Progressives. She is on the advisory board o
Progressive International and Democracy Next
In 2019, she published a nonfiction the internationally acclaimed book '' How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship'', about the rise of

right-wing populism Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti- elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establis ...

and how it operates. 2021 saw the publication of her non-fiction book “Together:10 Choices for a Better Now” extolling the virtues of humanity and the need to be “together”. She is on the advisory board of Progressive International and Democracy Next. In 2023 she received the El Mundo International Journalism Awards in the Freedom of the Press category for her body of work.

Works

* ''Book of the Edge : Poems'' translator Deniz Perin, Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 2010. * ''Deep Mountain Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide'', Verso Books, London, 2010. ISBN 978-1844674237 * ''Turkey: the Insane and the Melancholy'', translator Zeynep Beler, London : Zed Books, 2015. * ''Women Who Blow on Knots'' translator Alexander Dawe, Cardigan : Parthian Books, 2017. * ''Time of Mute Swans.'' Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017. * '' How to Lose a Country: the 7 steps from democracy to dictatorship.'' Fourth Estate Ltd., 2019. * ''Together:10 Choices for a Better Now.'' Fourth Estate Ltd., 2021.

References

External links

* Ece Temelkuran (29 March 2020)
"Corona-Neo-Fascism" as a deadly combo
''Diem TV with Srecko Horvat'', at 0:40:00. * Ece Temelkuran (17 July 2016)
"Yet again Turkey's children have awoken to darkness at dawn"
''The Guardian'' * Ece Temelkuran (3 July 2016)

''The New York Times''
Recent English articles
* https://twitter.com/ETemelkuran {{DEFAULTSORT:Temelkuran, Ece 1973 births Living people Writers from İzmir Turkish women novelists Turkish columnists BirGün people Milliyet people Habertürk people Turkish non-fiction writers Turkish novelists Bornova Anadolu Lisesi alumni Ankara University Faculty of Law alumni Turkish women columnists 20th-century Turkish journalists 21st-century Turkish journalists 20th-century Turkish women journalists 21st-century Turkish women journalists