The Lion and the NightingaleTurkey is a land torn between East and West, between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Gen travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkeys rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are