Turkey: Past and Present
Amol Rajan discusses Turkey with Elif Shafak, Kaya Gen莽, Fadi Hakura and Bettany Hughes.
Amol Rajan discusses Turkey past and present with the authors Elif Shafak and Kaya Gen莽, Chatham House's Fadi Hakura and the historian Bettany Hughes.
Shafak's new novel, The Three Daughters of Eve, moves between Turkey and Britain, and is a tale of friendship, faith and betrayal. It portrays Turkey as a country riven by deep divisions in society, politics and religion.
Kaya Gen莽 reports from across Turkey, exploring the lives of the country's angry young people on both sides of the political divide, while Fadi Hakura from Chatham House considers Turkey's changing relations with the outside world amid increasing nationalist feeling and isolationism.
Bettany Hughes's biography of Istanbul is the story of three cities - Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul - and reveals a city that's been at the heart of political life between the East and the West for the last eight thousand years.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
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Elif Shafak
is an author.
Three Daughters of Eve is published by Viking.
Kaya Gen莽
is a novelist and essayist from Istanbul.
Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey is published by I.B.Tauris.
Fadi Hakura
manages聽the Turkey Project at Chatham House.聽
Bettany Hughes
is a historian.
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities is published by W&N.
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Amol Rajan |
| Interviewed Guest | Elif Shafak |
| Interviewed Guest | Kaya Genc |
| Interviewed Guest | Bettany Hughes |
| Interviewed Guest | Fadi Hakura |
| Producer | Katy Hickman |
Broadcasts
- Mon 30 Jan 2017 09:00大象传媒 Radio 4
- Mon 30 Jan 2017 21:30大象传媒 Radio 4
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