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  1. race riots
    1
  2. Radio and Television High Commission
    1
  3. Ramadan
    1
    ,
    2
  4. referendum (2010)
    1
  5. Registered Brand Association
    1
  6. religion
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  7. replica designer industry
    1
  8. Republican People’s Party
    see
    CHP
  9. restaurants
    1
  10. Roma
    1
  11. Russian prostitutes
    1
  12. Russian women: fascination with by Turkish men
    1
  1. Saat, Beren
    1
  2. Sabancı family
    1
  3. Sabancı, Haci Ömer
    1
  4. Sabancı University
    1
  5. Şahin, Idris Naim
    1
    ,
    2
  6. Sai Baba
    1
  7. Said, Edward:
    Orientalism
    1
  8. Samanyolu
    1
  9. Samli, Sibel
    1
  10. Sara ile Musa
    (
    Sarah and Musa, Together
    )
    1
  11. Sarisülük, Ethem
    1
    ,
    2
  12. Sarkozy, President
    1
  13. Schäuble, Wolfgang
    1
  14. secularism
    1
  15. Selçuk, Gizem
    1
  16. Selim the Grim, Sultan
    1
  17. Sèvres, Treaty of
    1
  18. sex
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  19. Shafak, Elif
    1
  20. Shafi’i
    1
  21. shopping malls
    1
  22. Şimsek, Mehmet
    1
  23. skiing
    1
  24. Sky TV
    1
  25. soap operas, Turkish
    1
    1. actors as celebrities
      1
    2. Aşk-i Memnu
      (
      Forbidden Love
      )
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    3. based on ratings
      1
    4. budget
      1
    5. government’s concern over some plots
      1
    6. Hayat Devam Ediyor
      (
      Life Goes On
      )
      1
    7. interest of abroad
      1
    8. censorship
      1
    9. ageing stage legends
      1
    10. non-inclusion of controversial material
      1
    11. Noor
      (
      Light
      )
      1
    12. popularity of in Arab countries
      1
      ,
      2
    13. sales of to foreign broadcasters
      1
    14. Son
      (
      End
      )
      1
  26. ‘social clubs’
    1
  27. socialism: clamping down on
    1
  28. soldier-martyr: importance of in Turkish psyche
    1
  29. Son
    (
    End
    )
    1
  30. spending levels
    1
    ,
    2
  31. sponsored parties
    1
  32. stone houses
    1
  33. Stone, Norman
    1
  34. street traders
    1
    ,
    2
  35. Sufism
    1
  36. Sunni Muslims
    1
    ,
    2
  37. supermarkets
    1
    ,
    2
  38. superstition
    1
  39. Supreme Council of Radio and Television
    1
  40. Syria
    1
    ,
    2
  1. Taksim
    1
  2. Taksim Square (Istanbul)
    1
    ,
    2
    1. and Gezi Park protests
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    2. May Day demonstrations (2012)
      1
    3. redevelopment project
      1
      ,
      2
  3. Tarlabaşı (Beyoğlu)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  4. Tatlıses, İbrahim (‘Abraham Sweet Voice’)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  5. Tatlıtuğ, Kivanç
    1
  6. taxation
    1
    ,
    2
  7. taxis/taxi drivers: conversations with
    1
    1. dolmu
      ş
      1
    2. korsan
      1
  8. Tayfur, Ferdi
    1
  9. television
    1
    1. actor earnings
      1
    2. stardom and money involved in
      1
    3. see also
      soap operas
  10. television tourism
    1
  11. Temel
    1
  12. Tenger, Hale
    1
  13. TGMP (Turkish Grameen Microfinance Project)
    1
  14. theatre
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    1. government interference in state
      1
    2. privatisation by Erdoğan
      1
  15. tobacco: prohibition of advertising
    1
  16. tourism, Turkish
    1
    ,
    2
  17. and Arabs
    1
  18. medical
    1
  19. television
    1
  20. tövbe
    1
  21. Trabzon
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  22. tramps
    1
  23. transsexuals
    1
  24. transvestites
    1
    1. anti-transvestite movement in Avcılar (Istanbul)
      1
    2. attitudes towards
      1
    3. celebrity
      1
    4. eviction of from Tarlabaşı
      1
      ,
      2
    5. prey to police attacks
      1
    6. as prostitutes
      1
      ,
      2
  25. TRT (Turkish Radio and Television)
    1
    ,
    2
  26. Tuncer, Tolga
    1
  27. Turkey: creation of republic (1923)
    1
    ,
    2
  28. Turkish Airlines
    1
  29. Turkish Cypriots
    1
    ,
    2
  30. Turkish Federal Federation
    1
  31. Turkish Grameen Microfinance Project
    see
    TGMP
  32. Turkish War of Independence
    1
  33. Turkishness
    1
    ,
    2
  34. Turks: catering to Western tastes
    1
    1. character traits
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
    2. curiosity toward outsiders
      1
    3. devoted to hometown
      1
    4. easily offended
      1
    5. feelings of attachment toward Turkey
      1
    6. frankness and down-to-earth attitude of
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    7. generosity of
      1
      ,
      2
    8. lack of civic spirit
      1
    9. love of children
      1
    10. official
      1
  35. Turner, Martin
    1
  36. Tüzer, Ferhat
    1
  37. Twitter
    1
  1. Ukraine
    1
  2. Uludere air raid
    1
    ,
    2
  3. Ümraniye
    1
  4. underage marriage
    1
    ,
    2
  5. United States of America
    1
  6. universities
    1
    1. Boğaziçi
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    2. fees for state
      1
    3. grading
      1
    4. low teacher wages in state
      1
    5. national university placement exam
      1
      ,
      2
    6. private
      1
      ,
      2
    7. protests on campus
      1
    8. replacing of private security by police at state
      1
    9. state funding
      1
    10. vilification of leftist-learning academics
      1
  7. urbanisation
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  8. Urfa (Şanlıurfa)
    1
  1. Van
    1
    1. earthquake (2011)
      1
  2. Victoria, Queen
    1
  3. virginity, obsession with
    1
  1. wedding, Turkish
    1
  2. White Turks
    1
    ,
    2
  3. women, Turkish
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    1. and burqas
      1
    2. in business
      1
      ,
      2
    3. and education
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    4. government incentives for employment of
      1
    5. and headscarves
      1
    6. and Islamic clothing industry
      1
    7. loans given to by Turkish Grameen Microfinance Project (TGMP)
      1
    8. as MPs
      1
    9. non-recognition of lesbianism
      1
    10. older
      1
    11. participation in workforce
      1
    12. and patriarchy
      1
    13. rural
      1
    14. stereotyping of
      1
    15. underemployment of
      1
    16. urban
      1
    17. and the vote
      1
  4. women’s rights
    1
  5. World Health Organisation
    1
  6. Wounds
    exhibition
    1
  7. WYG (management consultancy)
    1
  1. yabanc
    ı
    1
  2. Yapım, Ay
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  3. Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge
    1
  4. Yayla, Professor Atilla
    1
  5. Yıldırım, Medeni
    1
  6. Yıldız, Ahmet
    1
  7. Yılmaz, Berna
    1
  8. Yılmaz, Cem
    1
  9. Yunus, Dr Muhammad
    1
  10. yurt
    d
    ışında
    1
  1. Zaatari, Akram
    1
  2. Zaman
    (newspaper)
    1
    ,
    2
  3. Zaza Alevis, bombing of (1937)
    1
  4. Zenne
    (
    Male Dancer
    ) (film)
    1

Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish mother and British father, and educated at North London Collegiate School and New College, Oxford, where she studied Classics. After graduating in 2009 she worked in London as an assistant director in theatre and opera before moving to Istanbul in January 2011, where she now works as a freelance journalist for the British press.

First published in
2014
by Faber and Faber Ltd
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