Love in the Days of Rebellion
Ahmet Altan
Brendan Freely
Yelda Tu¨redi
Altan was arrested in September 2016 and is still imprisoned. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities, and a central figure in the Turkish cultural world (Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk has written about his arrest and signed an open letter calling for his release, together with J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Elena Ferrante, Neil Gaiman).
Op-eds: Philippe Sands/The Guardian (November 2019), Washington Post (May 2020), New York Times (February 2018)
The author was interviewed by former PEN Director Jo Glanville for The Guardian (June 2018)
Turkey’s present portrayed through the lens of its turbulent recent past
For readers of The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk, The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak, Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
