Imagining Wastelands: Turkey's Waste and Recycling Policy at the Periphery with Adnan Khan

In this episode, the Takhayyul Project welcomes Adnan Khan, an acclaimed Canadian writer, editor, photographer, and visual storyteller. We discuss Adnan's recent work chronicling how the global trade in plastic waste has exploited some of the most vulnerable communities, such as refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Istanbul, and of the importance in bringing empathy and depth to similar stories that often go untold. Date of episode recording: 2025-11-09 Language of episode: English Presenters: Meryem Zișan Köker; Hazal Aydın. Guests: Adnan Khan Producer: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu; Meryem Zișan Köker; Hazal Aydın; edited by Alexander Pymm