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Back to SearchMurat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Episode 148
Murat Somer on “Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations and States” (SUNY Press). The…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Episode 147
Dimitar Bechev on “Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West” (Yale University Press). The book gives a neat overview of…
3 years, 6 months ago
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Episode 146
Amy Marie Spangler on the great author Leyla Erbil (1931-2013) and her novel "A Strange Woman", first published in 1971. Spangler just co-translated …
3 years, 6 months ago
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
Episode 145
Murat Metinsoy on “The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38” (Cambridge University Press). Th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
Episode 144
Reuben Silverman on “Borderline Personalities: Lives at the Political, Social and Geographic Edges of Modern Turkey” (Libra Books). The book brings t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
Episode 143
Sarah-Neel Smith on “Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey” (University of California Press). The book paints a vivid portrait …
3 years, 8 months ago
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
Episode 142
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on his report “Eurasianism in Turkey”, published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs' Centre for Applied …
3 years, 8 months ago
Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
Episode 141
Birol Başkan on “The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy” (SUNY Press), co-written with Ömer Taşpınar. The book examines Turkey'…
3 years, 9 months ago
Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
Episode 140
Andrea Lemieux on “The Essential Guide to Turkish Wine”, covering the regions, grapes and history of winemaking in Turkey, as well as the political a…
3 years, 9 months ago
Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
Episode 139
Noah Amir Arjomand on “Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria" (Cambridge University Press). The book is a deta…
3 years, 10 months ago