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Back to SearchZeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası
Episode 78
Zeynep Şentek on the environment, public health and politics in Dilovası, a heavily polluted industrial district near Istanbul. Şentek is among the r…
6 years, 2 months ago
Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary
Episode 77
Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on how Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria fits into President Erdoğan's…
6 years, 2 months ago
Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Episode 76
Holly Shissler, associate professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at the University of Chicago, on the life and work of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (…
6 years, 3 months ago
Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey
Episode 75
Deniz Çifçi on “The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey: Agency, Territory and Religion” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). Based on extensive on-the-ground resear…
6 years, 3 months ago
Nur Deriş on the epic life and times of Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel
Episode 74
Nur Deriş on the life of Sabiha Sertel (1895-1968). Deriş is co-editor of “The Struggle for Modern Turkey: Justice, Activism and a Revolutionary Fema…
6 years, 4 months ago
Emre Erşen on Turkey's pivot to Eurasia
Episode 73
Emre Erşen, associate professor of international relations at Marmara University and co-editor of “Turkey's Pivot to Eurasia: Geopolitics and Foreign…
6 years, 4 months ago
Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey
Episode 72
Hannah Lucinda Smith on her new book “Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey” (William Collins). Smith has been Turkey correspondent for T…
6 years, 5 months ago
Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish
Episode 71
Mehmet Fatih Uslu of Istanbul Şehir University on the pleasures and challenges of translating from Armenian into Turkish. Uslu has translated a numbe…
6 years, 5 months ago
Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey
Episode 70
Yağmur Karakaya on the rise of Ottoman nostalgia in contemporary Turkish politics and popular culture. Karakaya is the author of "The Conquest of Hea…
6 years, 6 months ago
Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios
Episode 69
Haris Theodorelis-Rigas on Skarlatos Byzantios' "Constantinople" (Istos), a monumental social and historical description of Istanbul written in the m…
6 years, 6 months ago