This week, Arsenal Pulp Press will launch Erdoğan: A Graphic Biography — The Rise of Turkey’s Modern Autocrat. The graphic novel, which explores the background and political historical past of Turkish chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, comes from author Can Dündar and artist Anwar, and is translated for English readers by L.L. Kreider. Today The Beat is happy to supply an unique excerpt from the graphic novel.
Here’s how Arsenal Pulp Press describes Erdoğan: A Graphic Biography:
A complete graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian president of Turkey
One of the world’s most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated over Turkey as both prime minister or president since 2003. (In 2023, regardless of predictions he would lose, Erdogan was re-elected president, because the nation continues to unravel as a consequence of financial crises, worldwide conflicts, and a devastating earthquake.) This graphic biography sheds gentle on the origins of Turkey’s strongest man, from his youth as a budding soccer participant to his years spent navigating Turkey’s political panorama, together with the founding of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. Author Can Dundar, a Turkish journalist and contributor to the Washington Post now dwelling in exile in Berlin, spent a number of years researching this ebook. In 2015 he was arrested when his newspaper revealed photographs of Turkey’s state intelligence sending weapons to ISIS in Syria; in 2020 he was sentenced in absentia by Turkish courts to twenty-seven years in jail for espionage and aiding an armed terrorist group.
As Turkey’s chief, the Islamic, conservative Erdogan has had a polarizing impact on the nation’s populace; some applaud his financial and political reforms, whereas others decry his autocratic, iron-fisted rule, which has included the jailing of opponents, the crushing of free speech and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals and others, and an ongoing warfare waged in opposition to the nation’s Kurdish minority.
Featuring compelling illustrations by Egyptian Sudanese comedian artist Anwar, this ebook supplies a important and dramatic context for understanding Erdogan’s convictions and contradictions as a demagogue for whom democracy has been merely a way to energy.
Check out the unique seven-page preview of Erdoğan: A Graphic Biography under. The graphic novel is due out on Tuesday, October third.
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