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Nazlan Ertan

Nazlan Ertan

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Who is Nazlan Ertan?

Nazlan Ertan is a journalist, editor and communicator who has worked in Ankara, Brussels, Paris, Geneva and London. She has worked for the EU Delegation to Turkey and Turkey’s Ministry of European Affairs; and her byline has appeared in Hürriyet, Hürriyet Daily News, CNN-Turk, BBC Turkish Service, Al-Monitor and the European Voice. Between May 2017- May 2020, she worked as the founding editor of Al-Monitor’s Culture Section. Currently based in Izmir, Nazlan focuses on socio-cultural issues and all that is hilarious, outrageous and unexpected in Turkish life.

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September 19, 2022 Turkish glass artist Feleksan Onar’s glass birds come home
September 10, 2021 Turkey's small festivals
August 10, 2021 Why a puppet may be a timely reminder for Turkey’s migration policy
July 19, 2021 Pig’s eye view of post-pandemic personas
July 09, 2021 Turkey’s summer house pandemic
July 04, 2021 Turkey’s summer of discontent
June 22, 2021 Why Istanbul’s relation with sea is not so easy
June 04, 2021 A brief if explosive history of shorts in Turkey
May 14, 2021 Istanbul Convention belongs to women
May 03, 2021 AKP’s two-decade-long battle against alcohol
April 26, 2021 Turkey’s iconic actors are in courts, not on stage
April 19, 2021 Turkey’s rulers need to stop using the word ‘infidel’
April 11, 2021 Sofagate points to EU representation problem  
March 27, 2021 Woman at Point Zero
March 14, 2021 Turkish artist’s perched birds pay tribute to the displaced
February 07, 2021 Boğaziçi 101 for the confused
January 30, 2021 Why Turks hate to work from home
January 25, 2021 Is the loanword mightier than the sword?
January 15, 2021 Taking Sex out of the City
January 08, 2021 Humour versus handcuffs at Boğaziçi University
December 19, 2020 Spare me the moralistic backlash on #metoo
December 11, 2020 From Batman to Istanbul, women break the silence on sexual abuse
December 06, 2020 Politicians should take a stance against fake news, not fiction
November 28, 2020 Cyberbullies go berserk under COVID-19 lockdowns
November 12, 2020 Sons-in-law and politics, a Turkish tradition
November 06, 2020 How heroes, humor and Hermes keep you going
October 31, 2020 Charlie Hebdo did not spark the fire
October 16, 2020 Why do the Turks love concrete so much?
October 10, 2020 The death of a three year old, child abuse and death penalty in Turkey
October 03, 2020 Berlin-based artist calls for resilience in corona times