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Patrick Keddie takes us inside the unceasing Turkish football conversation. The game turns out to be a great device to explain this little understood, football-mad country and its football-mad ruler (who recently banned the foreign word arena , forcing many Turkish stadiums to be renamed). The Passion is an energetically researched history of Turkey through football. * Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Football Against the Enemy * I found The Passion a captivating account of modern Turkey, its passions and frustrations; perhaps it won't make you fall in love with Turkish football, but it will help you see why it is so central in understanding Turkey's soul. * Kaya Genc, author of Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey * the writer's own passion for his subject is obvious throughout a highly readable and impressively far-reaching work that deserves attention from followers of football and Turkey alike. -- Michael Mackenzie * Ahval News * The depth of research undertaken by Keddie is laudable and what could have easily have turned out to be a dry, academic, turgid tome is thankfully anything but. The book is well thought out and structured and commendably offers a voice to parties who would otherwise struggle to be heard outside of the country. -- Paul McParlan * The Football Pink * Turkish football is an exemplar of a world where football is ever more reflective of our social conditions, and ever more politicised. It now has an exemplary chronicler and interpreter in Patrick Keddie whose The Passion is a fabulous guide to everything from President Erdogan's football obsession to Kurdish resistance through the game. * David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football *

Patrick Keddie takes us inside the unceasing Turkish football conversation. The game turns out to be a great device to explain this little understood, football-mad country and its football-mad ruler (who recently banned the foreign word arena , forcing many Turkish stadiums to be renamed). The Passion is an energetically researched history of Turkey through football. --Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Football Against the Enemy I found The Passion a captivating account of modern Turkey, its passions and frustrations; perhaps it won't make you fall in love with Turkish football, but it will help you see why it is so central in understanding Turkey's soul. --Kaya Genc, author of Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey the writer's own passion for his subject is obvious throughout a highly readable and impressively far-reaching work that deserves attention from followers of football and Turkey alike. --Ahval News The depth of research undertaken by Keddie is laudable and what could have easily have turned out to be a dry, academic, turgid tome is thankfully anything but. The book is well thought out and structured and commendably offers a voice to parties who would otherwise struggle to be heard outside of the country. --The Football Pink Turkish football is an exemplar of a world where football is ever more reflective of our social conditions, and ever more politicised. It now has an exemplary chronicler and interpreter in Patrick Keddie whose The Passion is a fabulous guide to everything from President Erdogan's football obsession to Kurdish resistance through the game. --David Goldblatt, author of The Ball is round: A Global History of Football and The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football

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Patrick Keddie is a journalist and essayist based in Istanbul. A reporter for Al Jazeera, his writing has also appeared in VICE, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, the Irish Times, the LA Review of Books, Middle East Eye and the Sunday Herald among others.

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