Slouching Towards Istanbul (opens in new tab)

A poster of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, seen amidst the rubble following a 7.8 earthquake in February of 2023. What a decade in Erdoğan’s authoritarian Turkey taught me about the long, bloody shadow of America’s foreign wars By Suzy Hansen I decided to write my book From Life Itself in 2018 out of a sense of disorientation. I’d spent a decade living in Istanbul, Turkey, and the country and the region had become mired in tragedy and violence. The hopeful first months of the Arab Sp...