This is a blog to register Erkan Saka's fieldwork days for his dissertation thesis project on Turkish journalism and the European Union (EU). He is a Ph.D candidate at the Anthropology Department of Rice University and a teaching assistant at the Media and Communication Systems Department of Istanbul Bilgi University. You will find here news, commentaries, casual analyses, documents, fieldnotes etc related to Turkey, the EU and his research as well as his posts on anthropology, journalism, cyberculture, football (soccer), reading notes and other field attractions.... 26/03/2006]

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The Guardian's Orhan Pamuk profile...

'This is funny to say ... but I like writing.' Orhan Pamuk at the ay festival. Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian

'If I'm at my desk, I'm happy'

Orhan Pamuk's prosecution for 'insulting Turkishness' made headlines around the world but, he tells Richard Lea, he is not interested in engaging directly with politics. Since winning the Nobel prize for literature last year, he is delighted to find that people are finally talking to him about his novels......

Kemalists versus Liberal Intellectuals in Turkey

Promoting the Kemalist Personality Cult and Keeping Rank

Against the backdrop of the recent demonstrations held "in defence of the secular republican order", Günter Seufert profiles the nationalist discourse in Turkey, which condemns everything that is not in line with Kemalist dogma

Posted by erkan on June 2, 2007 01:30 PM | Permalink

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