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Back to SearchYork Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
Episode 138
York Norman on “Celal Nuri: Young Turk Modernizer and Muslim Nationalist” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book examines the life of Celal Nuri, a journal…
3 years, 10 months ago
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes
Episode 137
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on “Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923” (Oxford University Press). The book examines British military occupation in I…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
Episode 136
Dilek Kurban, Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute and adjunct faculty at the Hertie School in Berlin, on “Limits of Su…
3 years, 11 months ago
Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
Episode 135
Hakan Özoğlu on “The Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Turkish Republic: Observations of an American Diplomat, 1919-1927” (Edinburgh …
4 years ago
Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today
Episode 134
Çiğdem Oğuz on “Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics and Gender during WWI” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book examines debates about …
4 years ago
Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
Episode 133
Murat R. Siviloğlu on “The Emergence of Public Opinion: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book argues t…
4 years ago
Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
Episode 132
Ramazan Aras on “The Wall: The Making and Unmaking of the Turkish-Syrian Border” (Palgrave Macmillan). The book examines the effect on local Kurdish …
4 years, 1 month ago
Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Episode 131
Maureen Freely discusses the eventful life of leftist woman novelist Suat Derviş (1904-1972), as well as her recently published translation of Derviş…
4 years, 1 month ago
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Episode 130
Marc David Baer on “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs” (Basic Books). The book argues for the Ottoman Empire as an inseparable part of Europea…
4 years, 2 months ago
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Episode 129
Federico Donelli on “Turkey in Africa: Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book looks at Ankara's bid t…
4 years, 2 months ago