Ece Temelkuran
{{short description|Turkish journalist and author (born 1973)}}
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| occupation = Writer, Political commentator, Journalist
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| notable_works = How to Lose a Country
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| alma_mater = Ankara University
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Ece Temelkuran (born 22 July 1973) is a Turkish journalist and author.
Biography
Ece Temelkuran was born on 22 July 1973 in İzmir. She was a columnist for Milliyet (2000–2009) and Habertürk (2009{{Snd}} January 2012), and a presenter on Habertürk TV (2010–2011).[http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/about "About"], ecetemelkuran.net {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421155942/http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/about|date=2016-04-21}} She was fired from Habertürk after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre.Al Akhbar (6 January 2012), [http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/3124 Firing Turkey's Ece Temelkuran: The Price of Speaking Out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040517/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/3124 |date=2016-03-04 }}Ayla Albayrak (9 January 2012), [https://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/01/09/turkish-colonel-journalist-fired-over-kurdish-killings/ "Turkish Colonel, Journalist Fired Over Kurdish Killings"], The Wall Street Journal blogEce Temelkuran (27 January 2012) [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/turkish-journalists-fight-intimidation Turkish journalists are very frightened – but we must fight this intimidation], The Guardian{{cite news |author=Ayça Tomaç, translator |date=19 January 2012 |url=http://www.sendika.org/2012/01/turkish-democracy-the-two-articles-that-caused-the-firing-of-turkish-journalist-ece-temelkuran/ |title=Turkish "democracy": The two articles that caused the firing of Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran |publisher=Sendika.org}} She was twice named Turkey's "most read political columnist".{{Citation needed|date=February 2017}} Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian, The New York Times, La Stampa, Der Spiegel, Internazionale and Le Monde Diplomatique.
A graduate of Ankara University's Faculty of Law, she lived in Beirut, Tunis, and Paris, to write her novels.
In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide.BOA Editions, Ltd., [https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/book-of-the-edge.html Book of the Edge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912212850/https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/book-of-the-edge.html |date=2015-09-12 }}
For her book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy, she won the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow On Knots and the Ambassador Of New Europe Award.
She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey's Ayşe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008.
From March 2021 to September 2023 she was a fellow at The New Institute, Hamburg, working on a project "A New Vocabulary for 21st Century Progressives. She is on the advisory board of [https://progressive.international/blueprint/b75fd240-66ae-4e48-9059-8ccfe9be9cb7-lawfare-vs-democracy/en/ Progressive International and Democracy Next].
In 2019, she published a nonfiction the internationally acclaimed book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.{{cite web |last1=SHAH |first1=VIKAS |title=A Conversation with Ece Temelkuran on How to Lose a Country, in 7 Steps. |url=https://thoughteconomics.com/ece-temelkuran/ |accessdate=6 July 2020}}
2021 saw the publication of her non-fiction book “Together:10 Choices for a Better Now” extolling the virtues of humanity and the need to be “together”.
She is on the advisory board of Progressive International and Democracy Next.
In 2023 she received the El Mundo International Journalism Awards in the Freedom of the Press category for her body of work.
Works
- Book of the Edge : Poems translator Deniz Perin, Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 2010. {{ISBN|9781934414361}}
- Deep Mountain Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Verso Books, London, 2010. ISBN 978-1844674237
- Turkey: the Insane and the Melancholy, translator Zeynep Beler, London : Zed Books, 2015. {{ISBN|9781783608904}}
- Women Who Blow on Knots translator Alexander Dawe, Cardigan : Parthian Books, 2017. {{ISBN|9781910901694}}
- Time of Mute Swans. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2017. {{ISBN|9781628728149}}
- How to Lose a Country: the 7 steps from democracy to dictatorship. Fourth Estate Ltd., 2019. {{ISBN|9780008340612}}
- Together:10 Choices for a Better Now. Fourth Estate Ltd., 2021. {{ISBN|9780008393809}}
References
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External links
- Ece Temelkuran (29 March 2020), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbrZzCHroi8&feature=share "Corona-Neo-Fascism" as a deadly combo], Diem TV with Srecko Horvat, at 0:40:00.
- Ece Temelkuran (17 July 2016), [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/17/turkey-children-coup "Yet again Turkey's children have awoken to darkness at dawn"], The Guardian
- Ece Temelkuran (3 July 2016), [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/how-my-city-washes-away-the-blood.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur "How My City Washes Away the Blood"], The New York Times
- [https://archive.today/20130616044402/http://www.ecetemelkuran.com/en/category/articles Recent English articles]
- https://twitter.com/ETemelkuran
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Category:Turkish women novelists
Category:Turkish non-fiction writers
Category:Bornova Anadolu Lisesi alumni
Category:Ankara University Faculty of Law alumni
Category:Turkish women columnists
Category:20th-century Turkish journalists
Category:21st-century Turkish journalists