Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste
Episode 238
Journalist Adnan Khan on the spectacular growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports and the role of migrant labour in the sector. His work paints a gri…
9 hours ago
Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction
Episode 237
Burcu Karahan on her translation of “One Thousand and One Kisses: The Most Joyous and Flirtatious Stories” (Translation Attached). The book brings t…
2 weeks ago
Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Episode 236
Mehmet Gurses on his article “Turkey's Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, published in the Current History journal. The conversation places the PKK's eme…
4 weeks ago
Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Episode 235
Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (Cambridge University Press). Today's AKP…
1 month, 1 week ago
Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay
Episode 234
Seçil Daǧtaș on “Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press). The book is a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics
Episode 233
Senem Aydın-Düzgit on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics in Populist Competitive Authoritarianism,” published in the South European Soc…
2 months, 1 week ago
Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries
Episode 232
Nora Fisher Onar on “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond” (Cambridge University Press). The book chal…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
Episode 231
Sean Mathews on “The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East” (Hurst). The book examines Greece's comeback as a regional playe…
3 months ago
Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
Episode 230
Perin Gurel on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America's Wife, America's Concubine” (Cambridge University Press). The book explores …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
Episode 229
Gokhan Bacik on his article “Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization,” recently published in the journal “Nati…
4 months ago