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To condense a dream into a tweet: my book, The Endless Country, is out in June 2024. A personal history of Turkey’s first 100 years - you can pre-order it now. Yikes.
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Sami Kent
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Sami Kent
@SamiKent
Journalist & Radio Producer in London + Istanbul In print, my first book, The Endless Country, out 27th June In audio, now on Today in Focus for @guardian
Katılım Nisan 2012
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Yikes! Thanks judges - see you all in November!
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What an unexpected midweek treat to see The Endless Country nominated by @HistoriaHWA. Thank you so much to the judges!
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The great Today In Focus team of @helenpidd @samikent and Alex Atack made an episode about Max and did him proud. You can listen to it here:
theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
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You wouldn’t know - if you didn’t pay attention to how authoritarian countries actually work - the shades and textures of them, how they can move into darker places, become evermore brazen. Basically, how they can break the heart again and again and again.
Michael Sercan Daventry@MichaelDaventry
The mayor of Istanbul and President Erdogan’s most prominent rival has been taken into custody.
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It’s really disappointing to be misquoted in this recent @TheTLS review - and then ignored by the critic @alevadil after I pointed it out privately.
the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/t…
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Cumhuriyet Bayramı kutlu olsun - today Turkey turns 101, to millions of flags, balloons and the old playbook of patriotic songs. To learn a little more about its first 100 years, you can order The Endless Country, my personal history of Turkey, and memories of celebrations past
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Found this moving to watch, these last moments of Açık Radyo on air, a station I've listened to so much over the years, even played to my boy so he hears more Turkish at home. Good radio is rare, even more so in Turkey - what a shame to shut it down. But I'm sure it's not the end
Apaçık Radyo@acikradyo
"Açık Radyo kâinatın tüm seslerine, renklerine ve titreşimlerine açık kalacaktır."
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This week the UK agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. So it’s a good time listen back to this journey of a 2022 Today in Focus ep made w/ @safimichael @SamiKent @philippesands @phil_maynard about the history of this long-running legal battle: theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
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It was a pleasure to work on this with @estheraddley, @helenpidd and @elidblock. And to meet Khalil in the end too
What a story to be able to tell - about migration, its sometimes tragic ends as well as its happier beginnings, and ultimately about the power of stories themselves
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‘Curious, emotional and partly unsettling’, but most importantly ‘recommended’. Thanks Merih!
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Just finished reading Endless Country by @SamiKent. It’s been a curious, emotional and partly unsettling trip down memory lane, an episodic depiction of the history of “modern” Turkey that is. Refreshes one’s memory! Recommended.
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And one for me:
open.spotify.com/episode/1UzoTS…
I talk to Anna-Joy Rickard about The Endless Country, my book on the history of Turkey, for the latest episode of the Great British Foreign Affairs Podcast
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One podcast for you:
open.spotify.com/episode/0N01Pg…
@tomphillipsin speaks to @helenpidd about Venezuela and the president who refuses to concede defeat.
With @RuthAbrahams5 and @RudiZygadlo. And, if we can say so ourselves, we think it's pretty good
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