Ece Temelkuran - Nation of Strangers

"Ece Temelkuran's letters to all of us carry immense power; I know no one who merges politics and poetry, love for humanity and reason so convincingly."
(Eva Menasse)

"I am not coming home." This sentence marks the beginning of Ece Temelkuran's involuntary exile. After the coup attempt in 2016, she left Turkey to escape repression - and became part of a "nation of strangers". In Nation of Strangers, she writes both personally and politically about exile, uprooting, and the feeling of having no place in a monstrous world. Yet the book is no lament, but rather a search for connection and a new home - in dialogue, in resistance, in ourselves. An invitation to everyone who feels estranged to rediscover solidarity.

Ece Temelkuran is a lawyer and journalist born in the Turkish city of Izmir. After criticizing the Erdoğan regime, she was forced to leave Turkey and now lives in Berlin.