A review by pearl35
Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey by Kaya Genç

4.0

With the eye of a novelist and access to the circles of young protesters of a whole political spectrum, Genç looks at Turkey since the Gezi Park protests and attempts to explain how political swings since his parents' generation of post 1980 coup redirection into consumerism from politics left cracks for his generation to embrace political Islam and Erdogan. I read this in galley form, rushed out with some translation blips and a new introduction framing his observations in light of the failed coup and with first-person accounts of the brutality and mayhem on Istanbul's streets.