Erdogan

di Can Dündar (Autore)

L.L. Kreider (Traduttore)

Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023

Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian president of Turkey. One of the world’s most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled over Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003. This graphic biography sheds light on the origins of Turkey’s most powerful man, from his youth as a budding soccer player to his years spent navigating Turkey’s political landscape, including the founding of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. Author Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist and contributor to the Washington Post now living in exile in Germany, spent several years researching this book. Situated at the crossroads between Europe and Asia with a population of 84 million, Turkey is a growing economic powerhouse with a geopolitically strategic location. As its leader, the Islamic, conservative Erdogan has had a polarizing effect on the country’s populace; some applaud his economic and political reforms, while others decry his autocratic, iron-fisted rule which has included the jailing of opponents, the crushing of free speech and the rights of LGBTQ+ people and others, and an ongoing war waged against the country’s Kurdish minority. Featuring compelling illustrations by Egyptian-Sudanese comic artist Anwar, the book provides a critical and dramatic context for understanding Erdogan’s convictions and contradictions as a demagogue for whom democracy has been merely a means to power. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure. He was released from prison after 90 days and moved to Berlin in 2016 to escape further persecution, but not before being the subject of an assassination attempt in Istanbul, where an assailant fired two shots at him in front of a courthouse before being stopped by Dundar’s wife and a member of parliament. In 2020, he was sentenced in absentia to 27 years in prison for espionage and aiding an armed terrorist organization; Germany has said it will not extradite Dundar to Turkey as it views the trial and verdict as politically motivated. •Dundar was the 2016 recipient of the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists, an American non-profit; following the award ceremony in New York, he was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour for CNN, which is available for viewing at: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/11/23/turkey-intv-amanpour-can-dundar.cnn •Currently he is a contributing writer to the Washington Post, and is editor in chief of a Berlin-based web radio station run by the nonprofit newsroom run by the organization called COLLECTIV, which also published the original German and Turkish editions of this book. •Illustrator Anwar is an Egyptian-Somalian comic artist and political cartoonist. He was among the new wave of young political cartoonists who emerged in Egypt in the final years of former dictator Mubarak. After the retraction of political reforms in Egypt in 2011, Anwar was arrested in 2019 and deported. He now lives in Berlin. ·Based on the advice of the author and translator, we not using the widely accepted new spelling of Turkey as “Türkiye,” as this change was instigated by Erdogan himself. •The book won the 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize, awarded by the Belgian Comic Strip Festival for the best journalistic graphic novel. •Both authors are fluent in English and will be available for remote interviews. •Blurbs forthcoming from graphic novelist Darryl Cunningham (Putin’s Russia) and Christophe Deloire, president of Repo

• Autore: Can Dündar
• Traduttore: L.L. Kreider
• Anno edizione: 2023
• Editore: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Webreader e tablet
• Layout: FixedLayout
• EAN: 9781551529226

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