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First printed copies of Hinterlands are here! Thanks to @peterfrankopan @gideonrachman @edwardlucas @lewis_baston @sammillerdelhi @jonleeanderson3 and @suzyhans for the lovely reviews.
Out June 4 in the UK - preorder now! tinyurl.com/4uv4spcs
Hannah Lucinda Smith
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Hannah Lucinda Smith
@hannahluci
Journalist: @MonocleMag, @TheEconomist, @TheTimes etc
Author: Erdoğan Rising, Zarifa, and my latest HINTERLANDS out now
@PulitzerCenter grantee
- 4.5 years later, I've just thought of an upside to Brexit - the UK will now be able to eat kokoreç, banned in the EU for being too delicious
- Boris Johnson has serial affairs and an unknown number of love-children and that's absolutely fine, Boris will be Boris. But Sanna Marin dances with men in a nightclub and it's front page news and grounds to resign? Misogyny and hypocrisy, alive and well.
- It's not a Turkish election until Doğu Perincek has pledged to pull Turkey out of NATO
- Azerbaijan is surely the only place in the world where you're gonna see that flag comboKarabakh Victory Hotel in #Shusha
- Many Turks at polling stations this morning saying they will return to the ballot boxes or electoral board HQs this evening to monitor the counts. This kind of civil activism is not a sign of healthy democracy - it is a stark warning of how far trust in elections has degraded
- Beşiktaş has penetrated the highest levels of the British intelligence services thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/r…
- The Chronicles of Narnia are strewn with Turkic references, but nobody really knows why: CS Lewis did not speak Turkish, nor did he ever visit the country For @EngelsbergIdeas, I wrote about the mystery that has preoccupied me for years
- EXCLUSIVE: Roman Abramovic has held a series of meetings with Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar and member of the Ukrainian parliament, in Istanbul in his role as an unofficial mediator in the conflict. My story in @thetimes today
- Replying to @hannahluci11) Endgame by @scobie - A lot of crap has been written about Omid Scobie but this book is a well-sourced counterbalance to the increasingly nauseating royal coverage in many UK papers. Also watch @mrjamesob's excellent chat with Scobie youtube.com/watch?v=jyQXUK…
- The pro-Palestine rally in Istanbul yesterday was far smaller than others in London and elsewhere. The Gaza cause in Turkey has been so thoroughly co-opted by Islamists that, even though there is widespread support for Palestine, most Turks would not turn out for a rally
- I knew Ajda Pekkan was older than she looks but... raillynews.com/2023/09/Pekkan…
