Author Elif Shafak, once put on trial for 'insulting Turkishness', warns of crackdown on free speech
12 March 2025, 15:51 | Updated: 12 March 2025, 18:28
"When history takes a darker turn, it always starts with the omission of words."
Award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak sat down with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on The World podcast to talk about her latest novel There Are Rivers In The Sky, the parallels she sees between Turkey and America, and what it was like being on trial for "insulting Turkishness".
