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Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: While some talk boycott, other Turkish writers have high hopes for the fair Turkey is the showcase country at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, which opens to the public on Wednesday. But a group of Turkish authors has announced a boycott of the fair to protest their country's government. Around 20 Turkish writers have signed a declaration explaining their decision to boycott the fair, and are calling on fellow Turkish authors to do the same. Many of the signatories are authors of modern classics in Turkey, and all are devoted Kemalists -- Turks whose ideology can be traced back to Turkey's first president, the reformist Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and his vision of a modern, democratic, secular state. Literary critic Fusun Akatli said the boycott would be a way of protesting the... [read full story]
