Ece Temelkuran on How To Lose Your Country in 7 Simple Steps
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Ece Temelkuran is a Turkish journalist and author. She was a columnist for Milliyet (2000\\u20132009) and Habert\\xfcrk (2009 \\u2013 January 2012), and a presenter on Habert\\xfcrk TV (2010\\u20132011). She was fired from Habert\\xfcrk after writing articles critical of the government, especially its handling of the December 2011 Uludere massacre. She was twice named Turkey\'s "most read political columnist". Her columns have also been published in international media such as The Guardian and Le Monde Diplomatique. A graduate of Ankara University\'s Faculty of Law, she has published 12 books, including two published in English (Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, Verso 2010, and Book of the Edge, BOA Editions 2010). In 2008 she was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, during which time she wrote Deep Mountain, Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide. Her books include Ne Anlatay\\u0131m Ben Sana! ("What am I Going to Tell You!", Everest, 2006), on hunger strikes by Turkish political prisoners. She was awarded the Human Rights Association of Turkey\'s Ay\\u015fe Zarakolu Freedom of Thought Award in 2008.
\\nHer first novel, Muz Sesleri ("Banana Sounds"), was published in 2010 and has been translated into Arabic and Polish. In 2019, she published a nonfiction book How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship, about the rise of right-wing populism and how it operates.
LYRICS:
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\\nBeware of movements that arise
\\nPainting heaven in the skies
\\nTelling you that they alone have the solution
\\nOn the right, on the left
\\nMany roads lead to theft
\\nAnd they\'re one of the ways to lose your country
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\\nBeware of the new rationale
\\nThat boosts popular morale
\\nAnd schizophrenic logic terrorises
\\nThere\'s a distorted narrative
\\nWhere the truth will never live
\\nIt\'s just one of the ways to lose your country
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\\nBeware of brazen shamelessness
\\nIt\'s a nasty business
\\nWhen people are acting up with immorality
\\nNot humble or humane
\\nThen chaos is soon to rein
\\nAnd it\'s one of the ways to lose your country
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\\nBeware of appointments and dilutions
\\nAnd attacks on institutions
\\nWhen the judiciaries replaced with their own followers
\\nA superfluous state
\\nWill sign and seal fate
\\nAnother of the ways to lose your country
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\\nBeware of model citizens
\\nWho are anointed as the ones
\\nTo follow and emulate cos they are perfect
\\nWhile the rest of us are left
\\nTo feel second class at best
\\nIt\'s just one of the ways to lose your country
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\\nBeware of laughter in the streets
\\nAs they mock their new elites
\\nThe only self-defence left is their humour
\\nSome say it\'s just sequential
\\nAnd at best inconsequential
\\nBut it\'s one of the ways to lose your country