In his last major novel, Sankofa (Sujet Verlag), which is now published posthumously, Doğan Akhanlı (1957–2021) draws a wide arc from persecuted opposition activists in an Anatolian village to Cologne at the time of the NSU murders to the USA during Black Lives Matter demos. Gerrit Wustmann and Çiler Fırtına talk about the novel and its author. In all twenty-six years, she had never heard her husband say anything political. In fact, the first lieutenant had to witness the events between himself and himself…

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