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Key Selling Points Altan was arrested in September 2016 and is still imprisoned. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities, and a central figure in the Turkish cultural world (Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk has written about his arrest and signed an open letter calling for his release), Op-eds published in the Washington Post (May 2020), New York Times (February 2018) Turkey's present portrayed through the lens of its turbulent rece...

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Altan's "Ottoman Quartet" spans the fifty years between the final decades of the 19th century and the post-WWI rise of Ataturk as both unchallenged leader and visionary reformer of the new Turkey. The four books in the quartet tell the gripping stories of an unforgettable cast of characters, among them: an Ottoman army officer, the Sultan's personal doctor, a scion of the royal house whose Western education brings him into conflict with his fa...