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As I have travelled around Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey these past few weeks, covering the lead-up to and aftermath of last weekend’s presidential election, I have been continually reminded of the last country in which I undertook such a project.
Hasan is a plasterer. Or at least he was one. These days he spends his time in the workers’ tea houses of Defne, in Turkey’s Hatay Province, playing cards, shooting the breeze and ruing the day this southern panhandle between
If Turkey’s first-ever presidential election, which took place yesterday, had a defining characteristic, it was the overwhelming sense of the outcome’s inevitability. I spent the past three weeks travelling across the country—Istanbul to Van and back again—and at no point
Bariş Çaycioğlu’s family has avoided discussing politics of late. With Turkey’s first presidential election less than a week away, they can’t quite seem to agree on which candidate to vote for. “We find other things to discuss,” Mr Çaycioğlu said.
Turkey heads to the polls on Sunday to popularly elect a president for the first time. It’s an important moment in the country’s democratic history. Or at least it would be were the election’s presumptive winner—Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
When I first met him a year ago, Pablo Gallego García (@PabGallego) had neither a job nor very much money. Like more than fifty per cent of Spanish youth, he understood only too well the effects of the Eurozone crisis
An international co-production about Ernest Hemingway’s life in Cuba has become the first full-length feature with a Hollywood cast and crew to be shot on the island since the 1959 revolution. Bob Yari’s Papa finished shooting in Havana last month
When Spain’s first post-Francoist prime minister, Adolfo Suárez, died in March, I watched the footage coming out of Madrid with a great deal of interest. While I sat in a Pamplona pinxtos bar, more than thirty thousand mourners lined the