Ece Temelkuran is one of the Turkey’s best known novelists and political commentators. She has also who been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, New Left Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Spiegel and Berliner Zeitung. She was previously a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Her novels have been published in several languages. She divides her time between Istanbul and Zagreb