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
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Communication as Information
- Zeynep
- Solmaz
- Orhan
- Solmaz
- Noah
- Michael and Noah (Day 1)
- Michael and Noah (Day 2)
- Michael and Noah (Day 3)
- The Chains of Narrative
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Michael and Noah (Day 1)
from Part IV - Translations
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
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- Part IV Translations
- Communication as Information
- Zeynep
- Solmaz
- Orhan
- Solmaz
- Noah
- Michael and Noah (Day 1)
- Michael and Noah (Day 2)
- Michael and Noah (Day 3)
- The Chains of Narrative
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
I met Michael at his hotel in Beyoğlu on Monday morning. He asked me over coffee about Turkish politics and my research. He was filling in for the newspaper’s regular Turkey correspondent, who had mistimed her vacation. Michael had reported in Turkey on a couple previous occasions (his usual fixer was already booked) but did not have detailed knowledge of the country. He asked very general questions about contemporary politics and Fethullah Gülen, whom the government had already named as the coup attempt’s mastermind. I characterized the Gülen Movement as a wide network with a conspiratorial side but with many affiliates engaged in nothing more sinister than teaching math to children.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 227 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022