Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Noah
- Between Worlds
- Orhan
- Nur
- Karim
- Habib
- Elif
- Order and Chaos
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Elif
from Part I - Beginnings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Noah
- Between Worlds
- Orhan
- Nur
- Karim
- Habib
- Elif
- Order and Chaos
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The same year that Habib graduated from university, and a year before Karim fled Syria for Turkey, an invigorated opposition movement shook up Turkish politics. Environmentalists occupied Istanbul’s Gezi Park in late May 2013 to protest municipal plans to replace the park next to central Taksim Square with a shopping mall. The main construction contractor was a conglomerate that would soon acquire Orhan’s former newspaper Sabah as it was passed around from one pro-government businessman to the next. Prime Minister Erdoğan was a witness at the owner’s wedding (RSF and bianet 2016).
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 37 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022