Podcast Episodes

Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history

Episode 228

Amy Marie Spangler on the late great author Leyla Erbil's What Remains. First published in 2011, the book is a multilayered narrative that sweeps fro…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid

Episode 227

Özgür Özkan, visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the domestic and regional implications of Turkey's …

5 months ago

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Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey

Episode 226

Christopher Dole on “Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey” (Stanford University Press). The book examines the psychiatric respo…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas

Episode 225

Mustafa Kutlay on his recent Foreign Affairs article “Turkey's Middle-Power Dilemma”, examining the successes and failures of Ankara's bid to carve …

5 months, 4 weeks ago

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Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege

Episode 224

Bilge Yabancı on “Civil Society and Authoritarianism: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book exam…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain

Episode 223

Erik-Jan Zürcher on the uses and abuses of nostalgia for empire in contemporary Turkey and the UK. The conversation is based on Zurcher's recent lec…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two

Episode 222

Talin Suciyan on “Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book ex…

7 months, 1 week ago

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David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey

Episode 221

David Tonge on “The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan” (Hurst). The book explores the politi…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece

Episode 220

Richard Calis on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (Harvard Universit…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty

Episode 219

Fiona Mullen, director of the Nicosia-based Sapienta Economics consultancy, on uncertainty around the future of the decades-long Cyprus divide amid …

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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