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community France 24 En 2026-04-16

Ece Temelkuran explores identity in her book, Nation of Strangers

Turkish author Ece Temelkuran's new book reflects on the experience of exile and migration. It examines the complex realities of being labeled 'outsider,' exploring what it means to lose one's home on moral, spiritual, and political levels.


Exiles, migrants, refugees: there are as many ways to label "strangers" as there are to misunderstand them and reduce their identity to their outsider status. Ece Temelkuran explores this existential and very physical reality in her new book "Nation of Strangers", as the Turkish author and journalist reflects upon what it means to lose one's home morally, spiritually and politically.

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