Orkan Pamuk's Own Private Istanbul

Muray Belge ordered more raki and personally oversaw the ritual of adding the right amount of water and ice to turn the clear anise into a hazy white. A once-time member of a Marxist group and implacable dissident ever since, Belge was thrown into prison and tortured during the seventies coup, gaine...

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Published inRaritan Vol. 33; no. 3; p. 97
Main Author Puchner, Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New Brunswick Rutgers University 01.01.2014
Subjects
Armed forces
Belge, Murat
Economic growth
Middle Eastern history
Middle Eastern literature
Pamuk, Orhan (1952- )
Writers
Istanbul Turkey
Turkey
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Summary:Muray Belge ordered more raki and personally oversaw the ritual of adding the right amount of water and ice to turn the clear anise into a hazy white. A once-time member of a Marxist group and implacable dissident ever since, Belge was thrown into prison and tortured during the seventies coup, gained a professorship in literature upon his release, but resigned when the military staged another coup in 1980. Among other things Puchner shares that the new Istanbul is the unwitting inheritor of both, making Istanbul more modern still and also, once again, more diverse.
ISSN:0275-1607