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GÜRSEL TEKİN, WHERE TO?
Portrait of the Week Sep 11, 2025

GÜRSEL TEKİN, WHERE TO?

Gürsel Tekin is the child of a family that migrated to Istanbul immediately after the 1980 military coup that turned Turkey upside down. The family’s roots lie in the province that was then called Kars, now Ardahan—a region where leftist and socialist movements were strong before the coup.

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