"Turkish Immersion in 'The Bastard of Istanbul'
NPR.org, April 10, 2008 · Two years ago, Turkish author Elif Shafak was tried for, and subsequently acquitted of, the crime of "insulting Turkishness." It's a charge that has been leveled against dozens of Turkish authors, and it's made some of them, including Shafak and Nobel winner Orhan Pamuk, minor celebrities in the West."
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