ELIF Karaarslan is the stunning referee accused of being at the centre of a sex tape scandal that shocked Turkish football. The female official has been slapped with a lifetime ban after allegedly ...

Not if your name, Elif, your family — and your coffee — is from Turkey. "It's about building relationships. It's about ...

Elif Ogan, 48, beloved daughter of Pekin and Christine Ogan; sister of Banu Ogan of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and partner of Anthony Hernandez, Portland, Oregon, left our world on July 2 in Portland. We ...

'Elif' original is on Netflix in the U.K. and the U.S. Turkish TV drama “Elif,” about a young girl hiding from an evil stepfather, will be remade in an Indonesian version by local national broadcaster ...

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics. Elif Shafak is the ...

Although the incident in many ways is no surprise, the birth of the main character in Elif Shafak’s latest novel (short-listed for this year’s Booker Award) provides a telling context for Turkey’s ...

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today. Show more Kirsty Young's castaway ...