Cruelty and courage in a panoramic history of Turkey
any stories start with a young stranger coming to town. Often it is a place of half-remembered childhood stories and of magic, somewhere not yet experienced firsthand. In Sami Kent’s enthralling book, the town is a whole country.
He starts with his great-grandfather, reputedly the gigolo of an exiled Egyptian princess in the dying days of the Ottoman empire, who gained an education in Europe, later becoming part of the Ankara secular elite. Entwining the personal and political, Kent takes us to Yeldeğirmeni, once a cosmopolitan neighbourhood in Istanbul, where Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews lived together, only to be torn apart by the 1923 foundation of the republic.
As the book sails through decades, we read of a Kurdish Robin Hood, the obliteration of leftist movements and the brutal 1980 coup
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