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Kaya Genç’s Biography

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Kaya Genç is the author of three books from Bloomsbury Publishing: The Lion and the Nightingale (2019), Under the Shadow (2016) and An Istanbul Anthology (2015). The Economist called Under the Shadow a ‘refreshingly balanced’ book whose author ‘has announced himself as a voice to be listened to’; Publishers Weekly said it ‘represents both investigative and literary journalism at their finest’. The Los Angeles Review of Books described An Istanbul Anthology as ‘a compellingly real picture of the…

Kaya Genç’s Journalist Portfolio

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Opinion | When All Else Fails, Blame the Dogs

Opinion | When All Else Fails, Blame the Dogs

Turkey's four million stray dogs are inseparable from the idea of the country itself. But maybe not for much …

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Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts | Kaya Genç

Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts | Kaya Genç

In 2019 the Internet Archive gave me and other Istanbul enthusiasts a great gift: one of its users uploaded a…

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Cries from the Rubble | Kaya Genç

Cries from the Rubble | Kaya Genç

February 6, 2023 The first moment, when information is scarce, is the most uncanny. My aunt, hit by a biblica…

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All That Really Happens Happens to Me: On Annie Ernaux's "Getting Lost"

All That Really Happens Happens to Me: On Annie Ernaux's "Getting Lost"

HOW TO DESCRIBE Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate? Novelist, diarist, feminist. Excruciating c…

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Walled future - Literary criticism - TLS

Walled future - Literary criticism - TLS

Dispatches from the world's last divided capital

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As the Syrian refugee crisis returns, the EU appears heartless

As the Syrian refugee crisis returns, the EU appears heartless

Europe's most serious humanitarian crisis of the 21st century, long in the making but recently in hiding, has…

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Six journalists detained as Egypt treats independent reporting as a security threat

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By Viren Naidu, Branislav Radeljić, Kaya Genç
| Index on Censorship Verified
At 12 noon on Friday, Cairo time, Eman Ouf, the rapporteur of the Women’s Committee and the Freedoms Committee at the Egyptian Press Syndicate, was rushing to the public prosecutor’s office. Technically, it was her day off, but the public prosecutor was working as normal, and she – along with other members of the syndicate’s board – feared that the six detained journalists who make up the editorial team of the fact-checking newsroom Matsada2sh would be brought before prosecutors without warning.
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LGBTQ+ activists vow to resist their "very existence" being outlawed

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By Kaya Genç
| Index on Censorship Verified
This has been a chilling week for Turkey’s LGBTQ+ communities, perhaps the most unsettling in many years, as police raids against their members sent shockwaves among the country’s marginalised, precarious but well-connected queer groups. Turkish police have detained multiple individuals from LGBTQ+ rights organisations across Turkey’s 15 provinces, conducting raids on queer association headquarters, confiscating documents from activists, blocking access to websites and social media accounts.
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After teargas, protests and legal strife, Turkey has a new opposition party. Is this the man who can oust Erdoğan?

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By Kaya Genç
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Özgür Özel, former leader of Turkey’s CHP opposition party, now leader of the Yeni (New) party, Ankara, 24 July 2026. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images In May this year, police in Ankara stormed the headquarters of the Republican People’s party (CHP), the oldest political party in Turkey.
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