Fiachra Gibbons

Fiachra Gibbons worked on the Guardian for almost 15 years, as arts correspondent, comment editor and deputy arts editor. He is also a specialist on the southern Balkans and Turkey

January 2014

Beneath Turkey's turmoil is a bitter battle between two wounded men
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Fiachra Gibbons: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's abuse of power is being exposed by the equally intimidating exiled spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen
Jan 3 2014 03.59 EST
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October 2013

What is France for? Standing up to Amazon
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Fiachra Gibbons: French deputies have voted to stop aggressive online discounting to save bookshops. What a positive 'non'
Oct 8 2013 07.00 EDT
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July 2013

Erdoğan's chief adviser knows what's behind Turkey's protests – telekinesis
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Fiachra Gibbons: From Lufthansa to the CIA, Turkey's government has come up with some worrying conspiracy theories to explain Gezi Park
Jul 13 2013 07.00 EDT
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June 2013

Erdoğan's fall from grace in Turkey is pure Shakespearean tragedy
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Fiachra Gibbons: Turkey's PM has become the personification of the corrupt despotism of the regime he was elected to sweep away
Jun 19 2013 06.45 EDT
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May 2013

Bob Dylan 'unworthy' of the Légion d'honneur? It's time for a protest song
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Fiachra Gibbons: Bob Dylan's cannabis use and anti-war stance mean he's been deemed 'unworthy' of France's highest honour. But all is not lost
May 19 2013 15.10 EDT
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February 2013

France's work ethic: flâneurs on the treadmill
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Fiachra Gibbons: A US industrialist claims the French don't want to work. In fact, the opposite is the case
Feb 22 2013 16.30 EST
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January 2013

Erdogan needs to move fast to heal Turkey's divides
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Jan 21 2013 09.45 EST
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Turks and Kurds must find an honourable way forward
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Jan 14 2013 11.23 EST
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October 2012

François Hollande tells the truth – it hurts less than lies
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Fiachra Gibbons: By acknowledging a massacre of Algerians in Paris, the president helps France face up to the ghosts of empire
Oct 19 2012 11.45 EDT
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September 2012

Cif belief
What kind of French republic needs the protection of Marine Le Pen?
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Fiachra Gibbons: Le Pen's logic sees her calling for a ban on Jewish kippas. France must escape this kind of myopic secular fundamentalism
Sep 26 2012 05.00 EDT
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Golshifteh Farahani: 'Exile from Iran is like death'
She was Iran's biggest film star. But when she bared her breast in a French video, she was banished from the country and became a lightning rod for the divisions in Iranian society
Sep 6 2012 16.00 EDT
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Alps killings fuel French soul-searching
The murders have hurt national pride, not least because they echo a 60-year old case in which a British family was killed
Sep 6 2012 14.46 EDT

June 2012

James Joyce's Ulysses on BBC Radio 4 – review
Fiachra Gibbons: This was the very epitome of Radio 4 flamboyance, a finely calculated compromise, erring strongly on the side of caution
Jun 17 2012 10.25 EDT
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May 2012

Turkey's PM threatens theatres after actor 'humiliates' daughter
Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemns 'despotic arrogance' of intellectuals and says he will cut state funding
May 17 2012 13.05 EDT

April 2012

Turkish delight in epic film Fetih 1453
The turbans-and-testosterone CGI retelling of sultan's conquest of Constantinople feeds on appetite for imperial Ottoman past
Apr 12 2012 10.33 EDT

March 2012

Toulouse shootings: race, religion and murder
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Mar 19 2012 17.03 EDT
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liberty central
Turkey's enlightenment languishes, like the journalists in its prisons
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Mar 13 2012 12.39 EDT
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February 2012

Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American'
The Boss explains why there is a critical, questioning and angry patriotism at the heart of his new album Wrecking Ball
Feb 17 2012 11.01 EST
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