Ece Temelkuran: Coming Together to Fight Dictatorship

How did things get so bad, and how can we begin to try and make them better? Turkish political commentator, novelist, poet, and winner of the El Mundo International Journalism Award, Ece Temelkuran joins us to unpack two books attempting to answer both sides of this question. In How to Lose a Country, she outlines the slide from democracy to dictatorship, while Together emphasises community as a means of instigating positive change. Chaired by Talat Yaqoob.

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