This silence hurts Turkish women juillet 16, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: abortion, caesarean births, Elif Shafak, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, women, women’s rights
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The Guardian (UK) Monday 16 July 2012, p. 22
Elif Shafak * in Istanbul
Turkey’s move to restrict caesarean births reminds us that rights we take for granted can also be taken away (en savoir plus…)
Scandal and wonder by the Euphrates and the Thames avril 6, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Livres, Turquie.Tags: book, Book Review, Elif Shafak, Turkey, Turquie
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The Independent (UK) April 6, 2012, p. 24
Arts & Books
by Alev Adil
Honour, a Turkish-Kurdish family saga set in London, takes Elif Shafak into new literary territory. Shafak is a prolific, controversial and critically acclaimed young Turkish novelist, columnist and academic whose previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love, has been long-listed for the 2012 IMPAC prize. (en savoir plus…)
The expendable sex mars 24, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Livres, Turquie.Tags: Book Review, Elif Shafak, Honour killings, Kurds, novel, Turquie, women
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Financial Times (UK) Saturday, March 24, 2012, p. 15
Review by Suzy Hansen
In her groundbreaking 2008 book Honour Killing , the Turkish journalist Ayse Onal interviewed a 14-year-old boy named Mehmet Taner who "slit the throat" of his 16-year-old cousin for "going about in cafés". (en savoir plus…)
Turkey and France were once great friends avril 26, 2011
Posted by Acturca in France, Histoire, Turquie.Tags: Elif Shafak, France, Histoire, Nicolas Sarkozy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, Turquie
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Guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 April 2011
Elif Shafak
The tension between the two nations has made us forget they have more in common than populist politicians suggest (en savoir plus…)
