Letter from Istanbul
By Kaya Genç
Turkey is a country with few rivals when it comes to noisy clashes between the literary and political establishments
The controversy that dogged last year’s London Book Fair, when the choice of China as “market focus” prompted protests at the involvement of officials normally in the business of censorship, must have made the organisers think twice about their plans for 2013. For Turkey, on which the spotlight falls next week, is a country with few rivals when it comes to noisy clashes between the literary and political establishments.
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