Library of Middle East History Ser.: Struggle for Modern Turkey : Justice, ...

The Struggle for Modern TurkeyJustice, Activism and a Revolutionary Female Journalist\nAuthor(s): Sabiha Sertel, Tia O'Brien, Nur Deris, David Selim Sayers, Evrim Emir-Sayers\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9781838604448, 978-1838604448\nSynopsis\nSabiha Sertel was born into revolution in 1895, as an independent Turkey rose out of the dying Ottoman Empire. The nations first professional female journalist, her unrelenting push for democracy and social reforms ultimately cost Sertel her country and freedom.\n\nShortly before her death in 1968, Sertel completed her autobiography Roman Gibi (Like a Novel), which was written during her forced exile in the Soviet Union. Translated here into English for the first time, and complete with a new introduction and comprehensive annotations, it offers a rare perspective on Turkeys history as it moved to embrace democracy, then violently recoiled. The book reveals the voice o]