May 28 2024 29 mins 2
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This week on The Storymakers Institute, say hello to award-winning Turkish journalist, novelist, author, political thinker, and public speaker, Ece Temelkuran who left Turkey in 2016 “exhausted from fear and paralysed with anger” when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “purge of the opposition began”.
In her 2019 book "How to Lose a Country” Ece documented the seven steps she observed about the transition from democracy to dictatorship both at home and abroad.
As she works on her new book “Nation of Strangers” , I sit down with Ece to ask: has the future been as bad as she expected it to be? Does the pursuit of a culturally cosmopolitan, globally informed, worldly life unhinge us? And what is home for storymakers like Ece, when home becomes a dictatorship?
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