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 ...

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.