Elif Shafak: ‘As a novelist in Turkey, you can find yourself put on trial, prosecuted... almost digitally lynched’

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Elif Shafak: ‘As a novelist in Turkey, you can find yourself put on trial, prosecuted... almost digitally lynched’

Saturday 3rd May 2025, 5:30AM

Nearly two decades after being put on trial for ‘insulting Turkishness’, Shafak has become one of the UK’s most popular authors. Ahead of her appearance at the Hay Festival, she speaks with Annabel Nugent about her latest novel and Turkey’s fraught politics

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