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Suzy Hansen

Suzy Hansen is the author of Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. She lives in Istanbul. (February 2018)

Kumkapı fishermen returning to port at dawn, Istanbul, 1950

Istanbul Blues

Istanbul: Memories and the City (Deluxe Edition)

by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

by Bettany Hughes

February 22, 2018 issue

Police detaining a woman during protests at Kizilay square in central Ankara, June 16, 2013

Turkey’s Women Strike Back

Why have women been leading this summer’s protests in Turkey? Despite the Erdoğan government’s reputation for innovative economic policies, the situation of women has lagged far behind international standards on almost every measure.

August 19, 2013

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