Book on the Beach

My second book review column, Book on the Beach, has been published in the March issue of Guide of Pattaya magazine (no. 30, p. 9). The article is a review of Ian Rankin’s novel Fleshmarket Close. My first column was published in February.

Cumhuriyet

Turkish newspaper cartoonist Musa Kart has been fined $3,500 after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan filed a lawsuit against him. The charge relates to Kart's cartoon depicting Erdoğan's head on a cat's body, published in Cumhuriyet on 5th April last year.

In solidarity with Kart, on 24th February the magazine Penguen printed caricatures of Erdoğan as a variety of animals on its front cover. Predictably, Erdoğan has also filed a lawsuit against the magazine.