Comments on: Elif Şafak’s goodbye

By: Fréderike Geerdink

Fréderike Geerdink — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:51:41 +0000

Yes Hans, true, and that’s exactly why I suggested it. Şafak wrote she wanted to sail away to far away waters, and since she is an unconventional woman daring to do unexpected things, I suggested the newspaper that would be further away from Zaman then any other, which would be Cumhuriyet. Understand? By the way, I heard she is writing for the rather new newspaper Haber Turk since this month, a rather main stream paper on tabloid size. I didn’t read her column there yet.

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:39:41 +0000

Frederike,
I had the same question as uha1.
Writing for Zaman and then for Cumhuriyet is like writing for De Telegraaf and then suddenly for De Waarheid (if that newspaper still exist?)
Kindest
hans

By: Yihawww

Yihawww — Sat, 09 May 2009 11:34:16 +0000

I disagree completely with the previous comment. You DO understand Turkish media. My family-in-law wouldn’t be caught dead buying a copy of Zaman, they only read Hürriyet/Milliyet/Cumhürriyet. So, where Elif Safak turns up will be very interesting.

By: Fréderike Geerdink

Fréderike Geerdink — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:29:09 +0000

Sorry uha1 but you totally don’t understand my blog. Elif Şafak is not a typical Zaman writer anyway, as I already mentioned and as you might know as well. It would be something for her to switch to the total opposite side of the media spectrum, being Cumhuriyet. I apparently have to explain my blog, could be I didn’t write clearly maybe you didn’t read properly. And by many people, esp. the ones that would critizice Şafak for writing for Zaman, Zaman is definitely considered very religious and suspect. You know it too.
Thanks for your reaction!

By: uha1

uha1 — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:14:23 +0000

A quick fix. Zaman is NOT considered to be a ‘very highly religious’, but more likely to have tendency to be a religious newspaper. No offense Frederike but in order to recommend writing a Cumhuriyet to a Zaman writer?…. clarifies that you far away from understating the basics of Turkish media. nope nope