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Back to SearchSinem Adar on the militarisation of Turkey's foreign policy
Episode 98
Sinem Adar, associate in the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the SWP think tank in Berlin, on the hardening of Turkey's foreign policy in the Mi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Richard Antaramian on Ottoman modernisation and the Armenian community
Episode 97
Richard Antaramian, assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California, on “Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire: Armenians and t…
5 years, 5 months ago
Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress
Episode 96
Berk Esen, assistant professor of international relations at Bilkent University, on his paper “Why did Turkish democracy collapse? A political econom…
5 years, 6 months ago
Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade
Episode 95
Magdalena Zaborowska, professor of literature at the University of Michigan, on "James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke University P…
5 years, 6 months ago
Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question
Episode 94
Serhun Al, co-editor of “Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East” (Palgrave Macmillan) and author of “Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the S…
5 years, 6 months ago
Oya Dursun-Özkanca on Turkey's foreign policy after Covid-19
Episode 93
Oya Dursun-Özkanca, professor of political science at Elizabethtown College, on her book “Turkey-West Relations: The Politics of Intra-Alliance Oppos…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ünver Rüstem on the Baroque in Istanbul and Ottoman rise and decline
Episode 92
Ünver Rüstem on "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton University Press). The book examines the …
5 years, 7 months ago
Michael Wuthrich on main opposition mayors and populism in Turkey
Episode 91
Michael Wuthrich of the University of Kansas on "The Pushback Against Populism: Running on 'Radical Love' in Turkey", co-authored with Melvyn Ingleby…
5 years, 8 months ago
Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı on Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years, 1919-21
Episode 90
Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı discuss the Meşher gallery's exhibition on Ukrainian painter Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years from 1919 to 1921. G…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump on Alevis in today's Turkey and in 15th century Anatolia
Episode 89
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, associate professor of history at The College of William and Mary, on “The Kizilbash Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politi…
5 years, 9 months ago