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 ...

Three graduate school roommates—a Moroccan, a Turk and a Spaniard—are strange bedfellows in a potentially inhospitable land in this painstakingly multicultural but rather discombobulated first novel ...

The novelist on the ‘surreal’ experience of being prosecuted for her fiction, voluntary exile from her homeland - and why fiction is the antidote to our polarised, fractured times In Elif Shafak’s ...

The Turkish writer Elif Shafak, whose latest novel is 'Honour' Credit: Photo: Rex Features Elif Shafak is an unflinching writer. The publication of an earlier novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, saw her ...

Before gorgeous Elif was a ref, she played for a famous European football club ELIF Karaarslan is the stunning referee accused of being at the centre of a sex tape scandal that shocked Turkish ...