Professor Faces Trial in Turkey

A professor at the University of Arizona faces a possible trial in Turkey based on the content of her latest novel, which traces the lives of a Muslim-Turkish family living in Istanbul and an Armenian-American family in San Francisco.

Elif Shafak, an assistant professor of Turkish and women's studies in the department of Near Eastern studies, has been charged with "denigrating Turkishness" in The Bastard of Istanbul.

"The novel deals with the question of 'memory and amnesia,'

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