Podcast Episodes

Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent

Benjamin Fortna discusses "The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent" (Hurst) on the life of an Ottoman secret se…

8 years, 11 months ago

Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey

Hale Yılmaz discusses her book “Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945” (Syracuse) and…

8 years, 11 months ago

Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents

Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan chat about their book "The New Turkey and its Discontents" (Hurst), a good primer on how Turkey got to where it is to…

9 years ago

Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey

Editors Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu join to discuss "The Making of Neoliberal Turkey," a collection of essays exploring the political, cultural,…

9 years ago

Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East

Roger Hardy’s joins to talk about “The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East” (Hurst).

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9 years, 1 month ago

Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey

Kaya Genç returns to the podcast. This time he joins to discuss his new book "Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey," which profiles…

9 years, 1 month ago

Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey

Burcu Şentürk chats about her book “Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities” (IB Tauris).

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9 years, 2 months ago

George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire

George Junne discusses “The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan" (IB Tauris), exploring the key role th…

9 years, 2 months ago

Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'

Özge Samancı talks about her bestselling graphic memoir “Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey” (Farrar Straux Giroux).

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9 years, 3 months ago

Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’

Ali Yaycıoğlu joins to discuss "Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions" (Stanford University Press), exami…

9 years, 3 months ago