Synopsis
"This place," writes Deniz Yücel in February 2017 from police custody in Istanbul, "has no memory. Everyone I have come to know here - Kurdish activists, brokers, cadastral officials, arrested judges and policemen, gangsters - all told me: 'You have to write this down, Deniz Abi.‹ I said: 'Logical, I do. After all, it's my job. We are not here for fun.‹« During his one-year prison period, Deniz Yücel – in tedious communication about his lawyers and curated by journalist Doris Akrap – has compiled a selection from his texts from the past 13 years into a book as smart as entertaining and varied in every way: Reportagen, Satiren, polemics, commentaries, glosses and other "used texts from the hand crowd". In addition, there are two pieces he has written in the high security prison Silivri No. 9 for this, as well as a contribution of his wife, the TV producer and lyricist Dilek Mayatürk Yücel. Whether it is about journalism – "finding shit and knowing better" – about our fellow citizens with a migration background – "maths for foreigners" – about general such as "biocoke and suren bingo" or, of course, Turkey – "The boss, the coup and the park": At Yü. Bissige Social criticism accompanied by a clear analysis of the hard facts. »The contributions that Deniz Yücel published in this book are great journalism. Going in depth, filled with personal experiences, not chatty-feuilletonistically overloaded, but suitable in the context and of great empathy. I believe in the power of this book." Günter Wallraff, Der Spiegel
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