Author: Emrah Güler
Place: Turkey
Date: 13 September 2011

"This might be one of the best jobs in Turkey because you always have regular and devoted customers you can depend upon." İlyas Ertuğ's job is not running a bakery or a gas station. Rather, he is, as he told Southeast Europe: People and Culture, the proud manager of a comic book store in Istanbul.

 

Author: Kerem Saran
Place: Turkey
Date: 7 September 2011

Running a magazine in Turkey is one of the riskiest ventures you can take. Many magazines launch with great expectations, only to fall victim to low circulation figures and eventually shut down. However, there are two types of magazines that are more likely to succeed: humour magazines and women's magazines that appeal to the mainstream.

 

Place: Turkey
Date: 02 August 2010

Join novelist Ayşe Kulin for a tour of her home town, Istanbul – the largest city of Turkey

 

Author: Ahmet Emre Çoban
Place: Turkey
Date: 09 June 2010

“We should never forget that we are always left somewhere, that we are pursued by our own ghosts and that we all have to live a continuous banishment and captivity in our personal adventures, in spite of all our efforts. Nothing else matters.”

 

Author: Ahmet Emre Çoban
Place: Turkey
Date: 04 June 2010

Aslı Erdoğan, named as one of the “50 promising writers of the future” by French literary magazine Lire, has established herself as one of the most renowned authors in Turkish literature in a short time, with her novels and stories being published also in a number of countries worldwide.

 

Author: Nazlan Ertan
Place: Turkey
Date: 04 June 2010

Ayşe Kulin once bitterly complained that the fact that her books made the best-sellers list was a mixed blessing because it prevented the literary critics from taking her seriously.

 

Author: Emrah Guler
Place: Turkey
Date: 02 June 2010

Perihan Mağden is one of the most inventive and outspoken writers of our time. The way she twists and turns the Turkish language, the delight she takes in the thrust and pull of popular culture, and her brilliant forays into subjects that everyone thinks about and then decides not to put into words, 'just in case' — these have earned her the love of her readers and the respect of her fellow writers.

 

Author: Nazli Demiroz
Place: Turkey
Date: 24 March 2009

Elif Şafak writes both in Turkish and in English. Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages. In an interview with “Southeast Europe: People and Culture,” Şafak (38) speaks about her latest novel Aşk, which is the Turkish word for love.