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 recent past

Target Readership

For readers of The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk, The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak, Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières