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Episode 218
Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape and internet crackdown amid political turbulence, protests and mounting pressure on critics.
Suppo…
9 months ago
Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy
Episode 217
Berk Esen on whether Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest heralds Turkey's shift from competitive authoritarianism to autocracy, dynamics driving the government's…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Episode 216
Cuma Çiçek, author of “The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris), on the dynamics behind Ankara's push for the P…
10 months ago
Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
Episode 215
Selim Koru on "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (IB Tauris). The book dives deep into the worldview drivi…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey
Episode 214
Claudia Liebelt on "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse University Press). Based on r…
11 months ago
Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'
Episode 213
Brett Wilson on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu's 1922 novel "Nur Baba" (Routledge). The book's account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lod…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey
Episode 212
Omar Kadkoy, foreign policy, security and migration program coordinator at Heinrich Böll Stiftung's Istanbul office, on the future of Turkey's Syrian…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts
Episode 211
Zozan Pehlivan on "The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" (Cambridge University Press). The book …
1 year ago
Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
Episode 210
Samuel J. Hirst on "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press). The conv…
1 year, 1 month ago
Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay
Episode 209
Ralph Hubbell on translating Oğuz Atay's "Waiting for the Fear" (New York Review Books). Atay is widely seen as one the great Turkish fiction writers…
1 year, 1 month ago