Turkey

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<p>The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations; charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped the place into what it is today.</p><p> </p><p>Brimming with intricate research and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global travel.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>IN THIS VOLUME, Elif Batuman, Burhan S¿nmez, Elif Shafak among other Turkish writers, many of them in self-imposed exile, explore a fascinating yet maddening country.</strong></p><p> </p><p>The birth of the ¿New Turkey,¿ as the country¿s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of ¿illiberal democracies¿ through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independenc