Turkey Book Talk
By William Armstrong
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Sep 12, 2020
May 10, 2019
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Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.
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Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey
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May 27, 2025 |
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Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
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May 13, 2025 |
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Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Jennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
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May 20, 2024 |
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Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
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May 06, 2024 |
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Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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James Meyer on the life and times of Nazim Hikmet and his generation
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Şebnem Gümüşcü on the past and future of Islamism in Turkey
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Constanze Letsch on gentrification and displacement in Istanbul
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Ci Demi on his surreal, unsettling photographs of Istanbul
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Derin Koçer on how Erdogan won and why Turkey’s opposition failed
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Demet Aslı Çaltekin on militarism and conscientious objection in Turkey
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May 29, 2023 |
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Aron Aji on the unsettling work of Turkish novelist Ferit Edgü
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May 15, 2023 |
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Tezcan Gümüş on enduring authoritarianism in Turkey’s democratic history
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May 01, 2023 |
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Paul Levin on Turks and Kurds in Sweden, geopolitics and Nato
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Maureen Freely on the turbulent life and work of Turkish author Tezer Özlü
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Doğan Gürpınar on the intellectual order of populist Islamism in Turkey
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Nesi Altaras on Turkish Jews applying for Spanish and Portuguese citizenship
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Selim Koru on Turkey’s earthquakes and their political aftershocks
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Çağdaş Üngör on what Turkey and China want from Sino-Turkish relations
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Greg Goalwin on religious nationalism and identity in Turkey and Ireland
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Turkey and abroad
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Ryan Gingeras on the last days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
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May 23, 2022 |
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Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
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May 09, 2022 |
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Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
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Dec 06, 2021 |