Istanbul's Outside by Suzy Hansen

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Vol. 37 No. 9 · 7 May 2015 pages 38-39 
Diary by Suzy Hansen

"Istanbul lately has the feeling of a crime scene. The Gezi protests are over but life has got weirder: the black police helicopters always hovering; the intimidation of dissenters on Twitter by the government’s online enforcers; Kurds and ultra nationalists and police fighting in the streets as if it were the 1970s before the military coup." MORE

[1] I am a journalist and editor living in Istanbul, and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Currently, I am working on a book about living abroad in the era of American decline for FSG. I have also written for the London Review of Books, Vogue, the Baffler, the New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, GQ, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Bookforum, Bidoun and other publications. For over two years, I was a senior editor at the New York Observer, and I was also an editor in the Books section at Salon. In 2007, I was awarded a two year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to live in and write about Turkey.

I can be reached here: hansen(dot)suzy(at)gmail(dot)com