Sami, a writer and radio producer based between Stoke Newington and Istanbul, has reported on Turkey for The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, Al Jazeera, The London Review of Books and now works for The Guardian’s award-winning podcast Today in Focus. The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation his father left decades ago and which Sami returns to as a young man. We delve into the history of the country that has for so long been dominated by the machinations of Erdogan and the enduring legacy of Ataturk. From tiny weightlifters to the world’s biggest prison, a failed socialist commune to a wildly successful orchid ice cream, Sami takes us on a journey around the bewildering diversity of Turkey’s past: its people, their ideas and their struggles.
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