How to Lose a Country
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Ece Temelkuran. How to Lose a Country
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Dedication
Contents
What Can I Do for You?
Create a Movement
Disrupt Rationale/Terrorise Language
Remove the Shame: Immorality is ‘Hot’ in the Post-Truth World
Dismantle Judicial and Political Mechanisms
Design Your Own Citizen
Let Them Laugh at the Horror
Build Your Own Country
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
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His name means ‘hope’ in my mother tongue.
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My grandmother, one of the first generation of teachers in the young Turkish republic, a committed secular woman who had spent many years bringing literacy to rural children, turned to me one evening in 2005 while we were watching a TV debate featuring AKP spin doctors and asked, ‘They did say “fascist”, right?’ She dismissed my attempt to explain the peculiarities of the new political narratives and exclaimed, ‘What does that even mean, anyway? Oppressive elite! I am not an elite. I starved and suffered when I was teaching village kids in the 1950s.’
Her arms, having been folded defensively, were now in the air, her finger pointing as she announced, as if addressing a classroom, ‘No! Tomorrow I am going to go down to their local party centre and tell them that I am as real as them.’ And she did, only to return home speechless, dragging her exhausted eighty-year-old legs off to bed at midday for an unprecedented nap of defeat. The only words I could get out of her were: ‘They are different, Ece. They are …’ Despite her excellent linguistic skills, she couldn’t find an appropriate adjective.
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