![]() Otherwise, in the future you will be dependent on your husbands or us. At one point, he tells them, “you have to be good at school. Samancı’s father’s response to the treacherousness of life in Turkey is to push his two daughters to do well in school and get well paying jobs. This allowed for a near-complete absence of recourse for people who didn’t have money and wished for any sort of legal protection. In order to silence the protests of public servants being paid less and less, the government implicitly suggested its employees begin to take bribes. Samancı’s parents were both public-school teachers and, as the currency devalued in the wake of the coup, they became increasingly poor. Turkey’s 1980s was a time of rapid inflation, a dictatorial government, curfews, and persecution and killings of opposition members. ![]() Özge Samancı’s bildings-graphicmemoir Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey chronicles her growing up years in Izmir in the turbulent period following Kenan Evren’s 1980 military coup. ![]()
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