Essays

October 2026 – Artforum (November 2026 issue) – Smell the Roses: Tayfun Erdoğmuş Compiles an Archive of Nature

October 2026 – Off Assignment – Encyclopedia of Change: Kar Tatili

September 2026 – Index on Censorship – LGBTQI activists vow to resist their “very existence” being outlawed

August 2026 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Female Power Versus Toxic Masculinity

July 2026 – The Guardian (The Long Read) – ‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger

July 2026 – The Guardian – After teargas, protests and legal strife, Turkey has a new opposition party

July 2026 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2026 number) – Şener Özmen’s Uncompleted Story

July 2026 – Eurozine – The anxiety of distance

July 2026 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2026 number) – Shadows Called Women

July 2026 – O Estado – Erich Auerbach: o exilado mais famoso de Istambul

June 2026 – The Dial – The Hologram Candidate

June 2026 – Literary Review (June 2026 issue) – When the Shine Rubs Off

June 2026 – MUBI Notebook – Being Ethical But Powerless

June 2026 – Artforum (Summer 2026 issue) – On Semiha Berksoy

May 2026 – The Believer (Summer 2026 issue) – On Hélène Bessette

May 2026 – Frieze (May 2026 issue) – Hera Büyüktaşçıyan Channels Istanbul’s Haunted Histories

May 2026 – Electra (Spring 2026 issue) – View of Delft: Istanbul

April 2026 – The Point – A History of Erasures

April 2026 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2026 issue) – Taking out the opposition

April 2026 – Artforum (April 2026 issue) – On Güneş Terkol

March 2026 – Foreign Policy – Sex, Liberation, and Obsession in 1970s Istanbul

March 2026 – The Guardian – A New Wave of Defiance

February 2026 – Psyche – Each of us has a song

February 2026 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Sex in the City: Istanbul 1923

February 2026 – The Dial – Welcome to the One-Man Regime

February 2026 – Electra (Winter 2026 issue) – Erich Auerbach: o exilado mais famoso de Istambul

January 2026 – ArtReview – Rethinking Institutional Trust in Istanbul’s Art Ecosystem

January 2026 – Eurozine – Peace be the promise

January 2026 – Artforum (January 2026 issue) – Velvet Stare

December 2025 – Foreign Policy – A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere Crowd

December 2025 – Artforum (December 2025 issue) – The Three-Legged Cat

December 2025 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2025 issue) – The Dark Side of AI

September 2025 – The Nation – Tezer Özlü – the Rebel of Turkish Letters

September 2025 – Artforum (September 2025 issue) – Didem Erbaş

August 2025 – Foreign Policy – The Dreamers and Cynics of the New Turkey

August 2025 – Rest of World – They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry

July 2025 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2025 issue) – Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook

June 2025 – Frieze (Summer 2025 issue) – Against Despair

June 2025 – Frieze (Summer 2025 issue) – To-Do List

June 2025 – Rest of World – The people who clean up your TikTok feed are starting to fight back

May 2025 – Index on Censorship – The Turkish government’s grip on journalism is tightening

April 2025 – Green European Journal – Challenging Turkey’s Culture of Silence

April 2025 – Artforum –  Above the Clouds: Underground

April 2025 – Artforum (April 2025 issue) – Cengiz Tekin

April 2025 – Eurozine – The voice that carries

April 2025 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2025 issue) – Doctors under attack

March 2025 – Rest of World – Turkey’s brain drain is taking its female coders with it

March 2025 – The New Statesman – Erdoğan’s Revenge

March 2025 – The Dial – İmamoğlu arrested

February 2025 – Rest of World – Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them

January 2025 – Artforum (January 2025 issue) – Atıf Akın

December 2024 – The Lancet – Newborn Deaths

December 2024 – Foreign Policy – Mourning Turkey’s Last Progressive Radio Station

December 2024 – The Point – Only Disconnect

December 2024 – Aperture – Capturing Turkey’s Dispossessed

December 2024 – Artforum (December 2024 issue) – Itziar Barrio

December 2024 – Artforum (December 2024 issue) – The Critics’ Critics

December 2024 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2024 issue) –  Murdered for music

November 2024 – New Humanist (Winter 2024 issue) – Erdoğan’s Palestine Problem

November 2024 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2024 issue) – The Science of Purges

October 2024 – ArtReview – Culture Route

October 2024 – The Dial – The U.S. Election Abroad

October 2024 – Artforum (October 2024 issue) – As It Seems

September 2024 – Rest of World – Muslim 3D

September 2024 – Rest of World – Step Counter for Prayers

September 2024 – Rest of World – Turkey’s Religious Girlboss

September 2024 – MUBI Notebook – A Place to Disappear

September 2024 – Artforum (September 2024 issue) – Painting Today

August 2024 – The Dial – Defrauding Istanbul’s Soccer Elite

August 2024 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2024 issue) – No Offence Intended

August 2024 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2024 issue) – Erdoğan’s Crucible

August 2024 – Index on Censorship – The Dichotomy of Turkey

July 2024 –The New York Times – When All Else Fails, Blame the Dogs

July 2024 – Eurozine – Welcome to the dictators’ playground

July 2024 – Artforum – Jackie Matisse

May 2024 – The Dial – Erdoğan’s Relentless Campaign Against Writers

May 2024 – Artforum (May 2024 issue) – Witness of Time

April 2024 – The Nation – The Resounding Defeat

April 2024 – PRAKSIS Oslo (Issue 9: Now & Always) – Haunting Visions

March 2024 – The New Statesman – Can Turkey Be Saved?

March 2024– Index on Censorship (Spring 2024 issue) – Welcome to the Dictators’ Playground

March 2024 – Artforum (March 2024 issue) – Endless

February 2024 – The Point – The Turkish Mosaic

February 2024– The Los Angeles Review of Books – Whatever I Can Have, Nothing I Want

January 2024 – Artforum – Break/See

January 2024 – ArtReview – Rumours and Whispers

January 2024 – Artforum (January 2024 issue) – Mean Streak: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses

January 2024 – Artforum  (January 2024 issue) – Birdir Bîr

December 2023 – Green European Journal (Winter 2023 issue) – A Free Market of Values

December 2023 – Artforum (December 2023 issue) – Among Friends

November 2023 – The Dial – Kurdish Ulysses

November 2023 – Artforum – Cevdet Erek

November 2023 – The Nation – Surreal Tales From Erdoğan’s Turkey

October 2023 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey’s Feminist Autofictionalist

October 2023 – ArtReview – Not History’s Victims

October 2023 – The New York Review of Books (NYR Online) –Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts

September 2023 – Ord & Bild (Innehåll 3-4, 2023)– Ode till Marmarasjön

September 2023 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2023 issue) –Turkey’s Zealots Still Want Blood

September 2023 – The Markaz Review – Lojman

September 2023 – Eurozine – Power Over Principle

September 2023 – Artforum (September 2023 issue) – On Cengiz Çekil

August 2023 – ArtReview – Istanbul Biennial Needs Greater Transparency Now

July 2023 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Literature Takes Courage

July 2023 – The Markaz Review – Lady Life

July 2023 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2023 issue) – Bars and Best-sellers (1& 2)

July 2023 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2023 issue) – A Censored Day: A Short Story

July 2023 – Artforum – Drawn to Light

July 2023 – ArtReview – Chasing Rainbows

June 2023 – The Nation – After the Deluge

June 2023 – The DAWN Journal – Anti-Refugee Hysteria

June 2023 – The Nation – Ferit Edgü’s Prescient Fiction of a Turkey in Crisis

May 2023 – The Nation – Aftershock

May 2023 – The London Review of Books – Erdoğan’s Challenger

May 2023 – The Nation (May 15-22, 2023 issue, cover story) –  The Ground Under Our Feet

May 2023 – The Point – Fate’s Plan

April 2023 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2023 issue) – Scope for Truth

April 2023 – New Republic – Nationalism, Unrest, Reaction

April 2023 – Artforum (April 2023 issue) – Scent of time

March 2023 – Artforum – Possibilities of Healing

February 2023 –The New York Review of Books – Cries From the Rubble

February 2023 – The Sunday Times (February 12, 2023 issue) – “Allah’ım! Allah’ım! Allah’ım!”

February 2023 – BBC World Service – Unkept Promises of ‘the New Turkey’

February 2023 – The Lancet (February 18-24, 2023 issue)– Turkish health workers speak out on earthquake

February 2023 – The Lancet (February 4-10, 2023 issue) – Turkish doctors warn of government persecution

February 2023 – Artforum (February 2023 issue) – The 90s Onstage

January 2023 – The Point – The Ottoman Complex

January 2023 – The Dial – Erdoğan’s Great Replacement Theory

January 2023 – New Lines Magazine – The Long Shadow of the Last Ottoman Sultan

January 2023 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2023 issue) – The truth is in the telling

October 2022 – Artforum – A Moving Target

October 2022 – Los Angeles Review of Books – All That Really Happens Happens to Me: On Annie Ernaux

October 2022 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2022 issue) – Moving the goalposts

October 2022 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2022 issue) – Industrial football

September 2022 – Artforum – Harvest moon

September 2022 – Art in America (October 2022 issue) – Studies in contrast

September 2022 – Artforum (September 2022 issue) – Temporary assembly of living things

August 2022 – New Humanist (Autumn 2022 issue) – The woman in the mirror

August 2022 – The Lancet (August 13, 2022 issue) – Turkish Doctors Emigrate

July 2022 – Los Angeles Review of Books – What Happened?

June 2022 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2022 issue) – Turkey’s newfound russophilia

May 2022 – The Jewish Quarterly (May 2022 issue) – Antisemitism and Paranoia in Turkey

May 2022 – Al Jazeera – Turkish Publishing in Crisis

April 2022 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Sights and Sounds of Life

April 2022 – Aperture – In Search of Atatürk

April 2022 – Art in America (May 2022 issue) – Deconstructing (and remodeling) the gallery

March 2022 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2022 issue) – The Legacy

March 2022 – Aperture (Spring 2022 issue) – Guardians of the Qur’an

March 2022 – The Point – An Invisible Thread

March 2022 – Artforum (March 2022 issue) – No Surrender

February 2022 – Artforum – What Water Knows

January 2022 – Los Angeles Review of Books – My Lonely and Beautiful Country

December 2021 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Exquisitely Curated Lives

December 2021 – Artforum – Static Shifts, Dynamic Rifts

December 2021 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2021 issue) – Fighting Turkey’s Culture War

December 2021 – Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal (no. 32, 10th Anniversary Issue) – The Friends of the Museum

December 2021 – Artforum (December 2021 issue) – ELEKTROİZOLASYON

November 2021 – Artforum (November 2021 issue) – Stay Well

October 2021 – Mashallah News – Neo-Ottoman Cruise

September 2021 – Harvard Kennedy School Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (Fall 2021 issue) – Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence

September 2021 – Rest of World – How Istanbul became the Silicon Valley of the mobile gaming industry

September 2021 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2021 issue) – It’s not easy being green

September 2021 – Internazionale (September 3-9 2021 issue) – Addio al mar di Marmara

August 2021 – New Humanist (Autumn 2021 issue) – Master of metamorphosis

August 2021 – Artforum – East & West

August 2021 – Eurozine – An ode to Marmara

July 2021 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2021 issue) – Truthteller

July 2021 – The Point – Impious Generation

June 2021 – The Happy Reader (Summer 2021 issue) – On Sabahattin Ali

June 2021 – Artforum (Summer 2021 issue) – Gaslighting

May 2021 – The Lancet (May 15, 2021 issue) – A Nation on Edge

April 2021 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2021 issue) – Turkey Changes Its Tune

April 2021 – The Times Literary Supplement (April 23, 2021 issue) – Geography militant

April 2021 – The Lancet (April 17, 2021 issue) – The Istanbul Convention

March 2021 – Artforum – The Locus of Power

March 2021 – Artforum (March 2021 issue) – Not Approved

February 2021 – Artforum – Crystal Clear

February 2021 – The Point – Streets Like Living Rooms

February 2021 – Rest of World – Turkey’s clerics go electric

January 2021 – Art in America (March-April 2021 issue) – Future Looms

December 2020 – The New Republic – The Ottoman Quartet

December 2020 – Eurozine – On Şehir

December 2020 – Artforum (December 2020 issue) – Sarkis

December 2020 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2020 issue) – Tearing down the ivory tower

November 2020 – The Times Literary Supplement – The form of a tragicomedy

November 2020 – The Lancet (November 7, 2020 issue) – Turkish Medical Association clashes with politicians

November 2020 – Global Literature in Libraries Initiative – Literature of Exile: Şavkar Altınel

October 2020 – Artforum (October/November 2020 issue) – Mehmet Sinan Kuran

September 2020 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2020 issue) – The Duty

September 2020 – Eurozine – The Return of the Bekçi

September 2020 – Artforum – Stéphanie Saadé

September 2020 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2020 issue) – Tracing Turkey’s Disappeared

September 2020 – Artforum (Autumn 2020 issue) – Cevdet Erek

August 2020 – New Humanist (Autumn 2020 issue) – Watching the Watchmen

August 2020 – Rest of World – Delivery Wars

August 2020 – Culture Trip – On the Trail of Turkish Literature’s Greats in Istanbul

July 2020 – New Humanist – Hagia Sophia re-mosqued

July 2020 – The Point – For Their Own Safety

June 2020 – Internazionale – La dura lotta delle persone trans

June 2020 – Artforum – Berkay Tuncay

June 2020 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2020 issue) – Losing the Last Oasis: Privacy in Turkey After Osman Kavala’s Imprisonment

May 2020 – Rest of World – Can a former model predict your future? A million Turkish users say yes

May 2020 – Artforum (May/June 2020 issue) – Everything Interesting Takes Place in the Dark

April 2020 – Sight & Sound – Quarantined But Not Forgotten

April 2020 – Art in America – Steve McQueen

March 2020 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2020 issue) – Academically Challenged

March 2020 – The Point – Saying Yes

March 2020 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2020 issue) – Generations Apart

March 2020 – New Statesman – As the Syrian refugee crisis returns, the EU appears heartless

March 2020 – Artforum – Breaking the Seal

January 2020 – LitHub – One Day in the Life of Murat Çelikkan

January 2020 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – After an Opposition Victory, Istanbul’s Youth Feel Emancipated and Precarious

January 2020 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2020 issue) – A piece of hay

January 2020 – Art in America (January 2020 issue) – Rosa Barba

January 2020 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2020 issue) – Sounds against silence

December 2019 – Artforum (December 2019 issue) – Nilbar Güreş

December 2019 – Art in America (December 2019 issue) – The Istanbul Biennial

November 2019 – The Lancet (November 2, 2019 issue) – The case of a Turkish scientist

November 2019 – Artforum (November 2019 issue) – Wild Flowers

November 2019 – Art in America (November 2019 issue) – Forward, March!

September 2019 – The Times Literary Supplement (September 11-18, 2019 issue) – Walled future

September 2019 – Art in America (September 2019 issue) – Mike Nelson in Istanbul

September 2019 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2019 issue) – Switch off, we’re landing

August 2019 – Art in America – Selfies on the Battlefield

August 2019 – Foreign Affairs (September/October 2019 issue) – Erdogan’s Way (cover story)

July 2019 – The New Statesman (July 5-11, 2019 issue) – Inside the battle for Istanbul

June 2019 – Artforum (Summer 2019 issue) – Zeyno Pekünlü

June 2019 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2019 issue) – Rule of One

May 2019 – Point Magazine – How to Lose a Language

May 2019 – Artforum – Marsyas

May 2019 – Art in America (May 2019 issue) – Semiha Berksoy

April 2019 – The New Yorker – Turkey’s Local Elections

April 2019 – Artforum (April 2019 issue) – Touching Feeling

April 2019 – Artforum (April 2019 issue) – Positive Space

April 2019 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2019 issue) – All the Local News

March 2019 – Art in America (March 2019 issue) – Prisoners of Correct History

February 2019 – Artforum – Memories of a Solitary Cruise

December 2018 – Art in America – The Distance Artist

December 2018 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2018 issue) – A Matter of Strife and Death

December 2018 – Artforum – Wings of Desire

November 2018 – Apollo Magazine – The eye of Istanbul

October 2018 – The New York Review of Books – Flights of Fancy

October 2018 – Artforum – A World of Ten Thousand Things

September 2018 – Artforum – The Eye’s Ray

September 2018 – Art in America (September 2018 issue)– Art in Public

September 2018 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2018 issue) – Turkey’s Unnatural Selection

August 2018 – Artforum – Mundessa

June 2018 – The New York Review of Books (June 28, 2018 issue) – Sex Changes in Turkey (cover story)

June 26, 2018 – The New York Times – The Erdogan Supremacy (front page story)

June 22, 2018 – The New York Review of Books – The Imperial Presidency

June 2018 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Portnoy’s Complaint in Turkish

June 2018 – World Policy Journal (Summer 2018 issue) – Reading between the Lines

June 2018 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2018 issue) – A walk in the park

June 2018 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2018 issue) – Slouching away from Eden

May 11, 2018 – Artforum – Continuity Error

May 5, 2018 – Fondazione Merz – Two or Three Things I Know About Her: On Fatma Bucak

May, 2018 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2018 issue) – Unleashing the past

April 14, 2018 – Artforum – Isle

April 2, 2018 – The New York Times – Who is a Turk? It’s Complicated

December 2017 – The Nation (December 4-11, 2017 issue) – Fathers and Sons

November 2017 – The New York Review of Books (November 9-22, 2017 issue) – A Very American Endeavor

October 31, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – A Refuge in Uncertain Times

August 29, 2017 – The London Review of Books – On the Sleeper

August 2017 – Aperture (Fall 2017 issue)  – Elements of Style: On Olgaç Bozalp

July 31, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – At Santa Maddalena

July 15, 2017 – VICE – One year later

June 20, 2017 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – The pleasures of the glimpse: on Dirk Braeckman at the Venice Biennale

June 2017 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2017 issue) – Frenemies: a story

June 2017 – New Humanist (Summer 2017 issue) – The dispossessed 

April 16, 2017 – VICE – Istanbul on the edge

April 7, 2017 – The Times Literary Supplement – Gothic Sherlock (cover story)

March 18, 2017 – The WorldPost – The Turkey-Netherlands Spat Is A Reminder Of A New Specter Haunting Europe

February 10, 2017 – Aperture (Spring 2017 issue) – Dispatches: Istanbul

January 20, 2017 – Sight and Sound – Turkey’s Greatest Cinephile?

January 11, 2017 – The WorldPost – Under a Blanket of Snow, Istanbul Finally Breathes

January 7, 2017 – New Republic – Walking Dully Along

January 1, 2017 – The New York Times – First Darkness, Then Terror

December 21, 2016 – VICE – Syria’s astronaut refugee

December 20, 2016 – The New Statesman – The Russian ambassador’s killing will only strengthen Turkey-Russia relations

December 12, 2016 – The New Statesman – An attack on Istanbul’s warm heart

December 2, 2016 – The WorldPost – Uncertainty in Post-Coup Turkey Is Refueling Istanbul’s Art Scene

November 25, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – Blank spaces on the map

October 26, 2016 – The Millions – Our Great Contrarian

October 24, 2016 – The Believer – A Young Turk in Love

October 20, 2016 – The WorldPost – After the Failed Coup, Many Young Turks Are Yearning For Independence

August 27, 2016 – London Review Bookshop – Angry Young Turkey: on Turkey’s frustrations

August 9, 2016 – The National – Mark Rothko, the flag and Turkey’s red future

July 20, 2016 – The WorldPost – A Night Out With Turkey’s Anti-Coup Protesters

July 18, 2016 – Pacific Standard– When American Radicals Take Over the Berlin Bienniale

July 16, 2016 – The New York Times – A Night at the Coup

July 15, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – Wilde the child

July 1, 2016 – The WorldPost – Once the Capital of Nostalgia, Istanbul Is Now the Capital of Anxiety and Neurosis

June 30, 2016 – Pacific Standard– The Mood in Istanbul

June 15, 2016 – Guernica – The White Center

June 3, 2016 – The Times Literary Supplement – ‘Please don’t leave us alone’: ‘A TLS symposium with leading figures in academia, literature and the humanities’

May 26, 2016 – The WorldPost – Turkey is About to Change

May 10, 2016 – The Millions – Here’s to the Cowardly Ones: On Dmitri Shostakovich and Emotional Rebellion

May 2, 2016 – The WorldPost – In Turkey, Secularism Is Much More Than a Word

April 13, 2016 – New Republic– Springtime in Istanbul

April 7, 2016 – Los Angeles Review of Books – On the “demonic energy & radiance” of “Mustang”

April 1, 2016 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2016 Issue) – When the Dream upset the regime

March 28, 2016 – Pacific Standard – An American in Istanbul: Molly Crabapple on Art and Activism

March 18, 2016 – Newsweek – Turkey’s Deal with the EU Could Destroy Its Flourishing Refugee Community

March 16, 2016 – London Review of Books – The Case of Fadi Mansour

March 11, 2016 – Index on Censorship – On “coup plots”, journalism trials and Turkey’s need for a proper dissensus

February 15, 2016 – Guernica – Istanbul’s Wandering Songbirds

January 28, 2016 – Sight & Sound – 10 great films set in Istanbul

January 16, 2016 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkish Contemporary Art 2.0

January 12, 2016 – The WorldPost – Istanbul Has Always Been a City of Fires and Earthquakes. Today, It Was a City of Terror.

December 21, 2015 – London Review of Books – Finneganın Vahı

December 17, 2015 – New Republic – The Graphic Memoir Comes to Turkey

December 11, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – The Return of the Repressed

December 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2015 Issue) – Not just hot air

December 1, 2015 – The WorldPost – Syria Should Not Cost Turkey Its Peace With the Kurds

November 16, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Imagining the “Other”

November 9, 2015 – The Believer – A Novel Without a Head

November 2, 2015 – New Republic – Why Turkey Stuck With Erdogan

November 2, 2015 – Pacific Standard – In Search of Istanbul’s Ghost Malls

September 29, 2015 – Al Jazeera English – Poverty in Orhan Pamuk’s Turkey

September 21, 2015 – The Believer  – A Call for Peace

September 18, 2015 – Pacific Standard – The Istanbul Biennial: Orhan Pamuk and the Mysteries of Water

September 13, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey Under Western Eyes

September 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2015 Issue) – In the Court of Purity

July 31, 2015 – Pacific Standard – How Turkey’s War on ISIS Is Imperiling a Kurdish Peace

July 19, 2015 – The Los Angeles Review of Books – Murder Mysteries After the Death of the Author

July 13, 2015 – Pacific Standard – Riding an UberBOAT Across the Bosphorous

July 1, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2015 Issue) – Silence on Campus 

June 11, 2015 – Little Atoms – Welcome to Turkey’s Desert of the Real

June 8, 2015 – Time – Turkish Voters Have Punished the Ruling Party for Bullying Minorities

June 5, 2015 – Prospect – Could this party change Turkey’s political landscape?

April 19, 2015 – Sight & Sound – One Step Back

April 6, 2015 – The Guardian – Turkey’s social media ban is a hark back to the old bureaucracy

March 18, 2015 – Index on Censorship (Spring 2015 Issue) – The state v the poets

February 27, 2015 – London Review of Books – Turkish versions of ‘The Little Prince’

January 12, 2015 – The Believer – A Turkish Hero of Our Time

January 12, 2015 – Full Stop – Diary of the Fall

December 11, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2014 Issue) – A climate of intimidation

November 26, 2014 – Guernica – Windows in the House of History

November 25, 2014 – The Believer – Kaya Genç on Avi Steinberg on The Book of Mormon

November 10, 2014 – New Humanist – (Winter 2014 Issue) – In Search of the ‘New Turkey’

October 24, 2014 – The Believer – Art in the Office

October 23, 2014 – Guernica – The Keys to the Kingdom

October 23, 2014 – The Rumpus – The Children Act

October 21, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Forbidden Fruit

October 5, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Hercule Poirot and Us

September 15, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Autumn 2014 Issue) – Political Framing

August 21, 2014 – London Review of Books – Turkey’s New Left

August 14, 2014 – The Believer – Winter sleep of emotions

August 8, 2014 – Guernica – Turkey’s Unofficial Referandum

August 7, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Crossing the Border of Fiction

July 12, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Sacred and its Discontents

July 12, 2014 – The Guardian – An appreciation of Andrew Mango

June 19, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Surviving the Black Sea

June 12, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2014 Issue) – Ghost of Turkey’s Past

June 12, 2014 – Index on Censorship (Summer 2014 Issue) – When one door closes

June 1, 2014 – The Believer (June 2014 Issue) – The Beginning of Anger Is Beautiful

May 27, 2014 – The Guardian – Why freedom of expression is under threat in Turkey

May 22, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Old Injustices

May 22, 2014 – London Review of Books – Soma and the Subcontractor System

May 1, 2014 – PEN Atlas – The Greatest Turkish Novel?

April 30, 2014 – The Believer – The name behind the crater

April 30, 2014 – Sight & Sound – Bridges in time

April 9, 2014 – Paris Review Daily – Infinite Reality

April 7, 2014 – The Believer – Life without Twitter was great for the first few hours

April 1, 2014 – Fiction Advocate – How Should an Author Be

March 29, 2014 – London Review of Books – Istanbul Votes

March 12, 2014  –- Index on Censorship (Spring Issue) –- Turkey’s Twitter Army

March 12, 2014 – Guernica – The Self-Inventions of Modernity

March 5, 2014 –  Courrier International – La nation arc-en-ciel

March 1, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Embassy of Gossip: Zadie Smith’s First-Person Plural

February 18, 2014 – Rumpus – The Daylight Gate

January 12, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Auerbach in Istanbul

January 8, 2014 – Paris Review Daily – Divine Wisdom

January 2, 2014 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Such, Such Were the Miseries: Down and Out in Paris and London and Istanbul

December 19, 2013 – PEN Atlas – Living by the pen

December 19, 2013 – Full Stop – The Circle

December 17, 2013 – The Guardian – Apollinaire publisher on trial in Turkey

December 10, 2013 – PANK – The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

December 10, 2013 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2013-2014 issue) – Pressure points

December 10, 2013 – Index on Censorship (Winter 2013-2014 issue) – Turkey’s Alternative Media

December 8, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – The Friends of the Museum

November 25, 2013 – London Review of Books – Bricklayer, Waiter, Gravedigger, Spy

November 11, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution

November 4, 2013 – Paris Review Daily – It Was the Best of Titles, It Was the Worst of Titles

November 4, 2013 – Guernica – The political color wheel

October 1, 2013 – The Guardian – Good riddance, Turkish school oath – but reforms don’t go far enough

September 24, 2013 – The Millions – The Heart of My Life, the Life of My Heart

September 19, 2013 – Rumpus – From the Ruins of Empire

September 19, 2013 – London Review of Books – Turkey’s second oldest paper

September 3, 2013 – White Review – Outside the Uniform

September 3, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Ali Kemal: Martyred Journalist and Iconic Traitor

August 23, 2013 – London Review of Books – At Robinson Crusoe 389

August 20, 2013 – Paris Review Daily – Take a Shot Now

August 12, 2013 – Salon – Ebooks v. Cigarettes

August 10, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Ebooks v. Lattes

August 1, 2013 – PEN Atlas – Our man in Berkhamsted

July 25, 2013 – London Review of Books – In the Sea of Marmara

July 15, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Turkey Is Just a Thread That Ties All These Interesting Ideas Together

July 12, 2013 – The Millions – My Little Library in Anatolia

June 28, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Listening to Vampire Weekend in Istanbul

June 20, 2013 – The Guardian (June 22, 2013 – The Guardian Review) – A latterday Bartleby

June 12, 2013 – The PEN Atlas – The Walnut Tree

June 11, 2013 – Sight & Sound – Visions of Istanbul

June 3, 2013 – London Review of Books – In Gezi Park

May 8, 2013 (June 2013 issue) – Sight & Sound – Let Battle Commence

May 1, 2013 – London Review of Books – Versions of Omar Khayyám

May 1, 2013 – Little Brother Magazine – But They Fuck You Up

April 14, 2013 – Financial Times – Letter from Istanbul

April 4, 2013 – PEN Atlas – What is Official? Turkish writing, from state discourse to civil literature

February 26, 2013 – London Review of Books – Thirty Years of İletişim

February 23, 2013 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra

February 8, 2013 (March 2013 issue) – Sight & Sound – The legacy of Seyfi Teoman

February 8, 2013 – Index / UNCUT – Number of “insulting Turkishness” cases drops as parliament discusses changing definition of citizenship

February 1, 2013 – Index / UNCUT – Why was this Turkish sociologist given a life sentence?

January 12, 2013 – The Guardian – Parents please leave Holden alone

January 11, 2013 – Index on Censorship – The trouble with Taraf

December 24, 2012 – Index / UNCUT – How comic Captain Miki offended the Turkish state

December 7, 2012 – Index / UNCUT – The Magnificent Century

November 28, 2012 – Guernica – Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth

November 27, 2012 – PANK – Ancient Light

November 23, 2012 – HTMLGIANT – Living to tell the tale

November 20, 2012 – Rumpus – Lionel Asbo: State of England

November 5, 2012 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Plebs and Chavs: On Textual Representation of Class

October 1, 2012 – Specter – A Farewell to the Eye

August 24, 2012 – The New Inquiry – Coming Out of the Coffin

August 12, 2012 – Los Angeles Review of Books – Wilde in the Office

July 18, 2012 – London Review of Books – Remember the Umbrella Makers

July 3, 2012 – Index on Censorship – Index award winner faces jail

June 14, 2012 – The Millions – Mario Vargas Llosa and the Heart of Roger Casement

June 4, 2012 – Guernica – Our Grand Young Filmmaker

April 29, 2012 – Squawk Back / “Franzen delenda est” issue – The Judas Kiss

April 21, 2012 – The Guardian – Pamuk opens his museum

April 12, 2012 – London Review of Books – Anglobalisation

March, 2012 – Index on Censorship: 40th Anniversary Issue – Shadow of dissent: Voices of the Brave

February 8, 2012 – Guernica Magazine – Conrad’s First Novel & His Personal Record

January 9, 2012 – The Millions – Orhan Pamuk’s Unlikely New Role

December 22, 2011 – Index on Censorship – Turkish crackdown on Kurdish journalists

December 8, 2011 – London Review of Books – Publish and be jailed

December 4, 2011 – The Guardian Weekly – Turkish coffee and frank talk

November 24, 2011 – The Guardian – Turkish coffee house talk could teach the world a thing or two

October 2011 – Index on Censorship: The Art Issue – Sketches of Dissent: Challenging the Status Quo in Turkey

August 31, 2011 – The Guardian – Turkey’s Kurds must push for a democratic answer

July 2011 – Index on Censorship – Dink’s murderer sentenced to 22 years

June 11, 2011 – The Guardian – Palahniuk and Burroughs, Turkish state’s new ‘suspect authors’

March 2011 – Index on Censorship – Arrest of Turkish reporters raises doubts over Ergenekon case

February 5, 2011 – The Guardian – Speak of the Devil

October 2010 – Songlines – The wound within

September 2010 – Index on Censorship – Hrant Dink: A Misinterpreted Peacemaker

September 2010 – Index on Censorship: Smashed Hits Issue – Coffee-house blues

August 20, 2010 – Index on Censorship – Stranger than fiction