--- title: Elif Shafak | TIME description: Shafak is a leading Turkish novelist and the author of nine novels, most recently The Architect’s Apprentice. canonical: https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Elif Shafak ## Elif Shafak Shafak is a leading Turkish novelist and the author of nine novels, most recently _The Architect’s Apprentice_. ## Elif Shafak *  Jun 9, 2015 ### [What Turkey Urgently Needs Now](https://time.com/3913758/elif-shafak-turkey-election-erdogan/) The Turkish novelist reflects on the recent election and what comes next [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/","name":"Elif Shafak"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/"},"name":"Elif Shafak","jobTitle":null,"description":"Shafak is a leading Turkish novelist and the author of nine novels, most recently The Architect’s Apprentice.","url":"https://time.com/author/elif-shafak/","sameAs":["https://x.com/Elif_Safak"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```