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Esra Gürakar on "Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan), her book about how the AKP government abandoned early …
8 years, 6 months ago
Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East
Birol Başkan, an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, joins to discuss "Turkey and Qatar in the Tangl…
8 years, 6 months ago
Nigar Göksel on Turkey's PKK conflict through the case of Nusaybin
International Crisis Group's Turkey director, Nigar Göksel, discusses their recent report “Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin.”
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8 years, 7 months ago
Ryan Gingeras on Turkey's 'deep state of crisis'
Ryan Gingeras returns to discuss his report "Deep State of Crisis: Re-Assessing Risks to the Turkish State," written for the Bipartisan Policy Center…
8 years, 8 months ago
Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world
Cemil Aydin, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on "The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectu…
8 years, 8 months ago
Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state
Queen Mary University fellow Mehmet Kurt on "Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State" (Pluto Press).
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8 years, 8 months ago
Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria
Kapka Kassabova discusses "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe" (Granta), on the troubled past and present of the border between Turkey, Greece a…
8 years, 9 months ago
Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism
New York Times journalist Basharat Peer on “A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen,” exploring the parallels between Erdoğan…
8 years, 9 months ago
Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities
Cuma Çiçek joins to discuss his book "The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris).
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8 years, 10 months ago
Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
Ulaş Tol joins to discuss his report "Urban Alevism and Young Alevis’ Search for Identity," written for the PODEM think tank.
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8 years, 10 months ago