Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRyan Gingeras on the paradoxes of Turkey in the age of Atatürk
Episode 88
Ryan Gingeras on “Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Atatürk” (Oxford University Press) on the late Ottoman and early republican period, examining th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Omar Kadkoy on Syrian refugees, the EU deal and migrants in Turkey
Episode 87
Omar Kadkoy, policy analyst at the TEPAV think tank, on the over 3.5 million Syrian migrants and refugees in Turkey, the Ankara-EU migrant deal, shif…
5 years, 10 months ago
Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today
Season 1 Episode 86
Onur İşçi on “Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book counter-intuitively argues that the breakdown in Turk…
5 years, 10 months ago
Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West
Episode 85
Ayşe Zarakol on “After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West” (Cambridge University Press). The book examines how a sense of “stigma” ha…
5 years, 11 months ago
Erkan Saka on social media, trolling and fake news in Turkey
Episode 84
Erkan Saka on “Social Media and Politics in Turkey: A Journey Through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling and Fake News” (Lexington). The book loo…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present
Episode 83
Ayhan Kaya of Istanbul Bilgi University on “Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants” (Palgrave Macmillan). The book examines migration from Tur…
6 years ago
Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Episode 82
Mike Giglio, staff writer at The Atlantic, on "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" (Public Affairs). The book describes Giglio's…
6 years ago
Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism
Episode 81
Bilge Yabancı on her paper “Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey’s Government-oriented Youth Organizations in Cultivating a …
6 years, 1 month ago
Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
Episode 80
Caner Yelbaşı on “The Circassians in Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book describes t…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Episode 79
Jonathan Rugman, foreign correspondent at Channel 4 News, on “The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi” (Sim…
6 years, 2 months ago