Books

Two books documenting the continuity of power and the networks of the oligarchy in Turkey.

Yalıdakiler
01

Yalıdakiler

A horizontal history of Turkey’s oligarchy, told through the waterside mansions of the Bosphorus.

From Sedat Simavi to Aydın Doğan, from Tercüman to Taraf: the inner workings of the yalı brotherhood. A diagnosis of how success is so often won in the shadow of relationships rather than through luck or effort.

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Publisher
Destek Yayınları
Pages
306
Genre
Investigative non-fiction
Erguvaniler
02

Erguvaniler

The story of modernisation, the modernisers and Turkey’s oligarchy.

Oligarchy — a key concept of the Turkish socialist movement — ceases to be an abstraction and takes on flesh and blood. The author’s first book: seven printings and a cult following.

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Printings
7+
Genre
Investigative non-fiction
Subject
Oligarchy and the continuity of power