As Turkey pushes through its most tumultuous period since the Ottoman collapse, acclaimed author and journalist Ece Temelkuran argues that the best way to understand the upheaval is to reexamine the 1980 military coup, which fundamentally altered Turkish society. This is the era of transformation brought to life in her latest novel, The Time of Mute Swans. To discuss how this portrait of past authoritarianism intersects with the Erdogan era.