Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey - Softcover

Scott, Alev

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9780571296576: Turkish Awakening: A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey

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ISBN 10: 0571296572 ISBN 13: 9780571296576

Publisher: Faber & Faber Non-Fiction, 2014

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Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul in 2011 to explore her roots and to investigate what it means to be Turkish today. In Turkish Awakening she reports her impressions of a country experiencing rapid change through mass migration, urbanization and a growing awareness of human rights. She ends by describing the dramatic and unexpected political protests of May 2013.

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Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and a British father, and educated at North London Collegiate School and New College, Oxford, where she studied Classics. After graduating in 2009, she worked in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera before moving to Istanbul in January 2011, where she now works as a freelance journalist for the British press.

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PublisherFaber & Faber Non-Fiction
Publication date2014
ISBN 10 0571296572
ISBN 13 9780571296576
BindingPaperback
Number of pages352
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