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Nazlan Ertan

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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 22, 2020 Turkish women put heels on wheels despite COVID-19

September 18, 2020 Undiplomatically yours: The art of insults

September 07, 2020 The sweet taste of survival

September 04, 2020 'Enemies of the State 101' for foreigners in Turkey

August 29, 2020 How the Turks are locked in a bad romance

August 20, 2020 Dear AKP, stop mansplaining and do your job

August 14, 2020 Back to school? Not so quickly!

August 07, 2020 Syrian refugees, gullible celebrities and violence on the beach

July 31, 2020 Stories of absurd from Turkey: From shisha cafes to wanna be escorts

July 21, 2020 The end of the Virgin

July 17, 2020 Turkey’s plastic problem: Do we need to import it?

July 10, 2020 Crowning the gender polemic in the aftermath of COVID-19