William Eichler

William Eichler

William Eichler is a freelance writer with an interest in the history and politics of the Middle East. He has written for the UK-based magazines The Tablet and the LSE Review of Books and for such websites as openDemocracy and Informed Comment. He lived in Turkey from 2011 to 2014.


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Turkey’s “Ghost Empire”

A Turkish academic I once met in a provincial Anatolian city insisted to me that Turkey is a country where a lot goes unsaid, a place where much is buried, and where fairy tales are told to hide a violent past. A Marxist and atheist, he spoke with regret about the disappearance of the Christian […]