Politics Turkish Music Stars: SIBEL CAN TELLS "NO CENSOR"
Politics Turkish Music Stars
Turkish Politics Music Stars tells "No corsair" Sibel Can, Orhan Pamuk
Sibel Can Orhan Pamuk and Turkey
Sibel Can became a dancer at the age 14 and later started her singing
career. She has been known as one of the most successful and powerful
singers in Turkey
Secondly, and embarrassingly, it pains us to admit that the levels of
erudtion evinced by our posters were not, alas, echoed here in
Guardian towers. To those who (justifiably) lampooned our risible
grasp of geography - and to those of you who were too embarrassed to
mention it - we apologise. We've since had the opportunity to poke our
noses into an atlas, and have discovered for ourselves that Canada, as
several of you pointed out, is a pretty big place and by and large not
"frozen", as we suggested. Nor, we have learned to our chagrin, can
Canada really be said to lay claim to the US state of Vermont (the
offending maple leaf has now, at last, been removed). It's a learning
curve, people. We'll try to do better this time.
And on that note, let us proceed without further ado to this month's
destination. We've counted up your votes, and the winning country
is ...Turkey. Most people have now heard of the country's bestselling
author, Orhan Pamuk, whose profile was raised considerably when his
recent trial on the charge of "insulting turkishness" made headlines
around the world, but which other Turkish writers should we be
reading? Tourists, it's over to you. And don't forget to tell us where
you'd like to go next
