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Back to SearchJennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape
Episode 208
Jennifer Hattam reflects on a decade-and-a-half of reporting on Turkey's environmental, political and cultural agenda, as well as wrenching changes …
1 year, 2 months ago
Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset
Episode 207
Salim Çevik on his recent SWP paper "Turkey’s Reconciliation Efforts in the Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints in a Changing Regional Order". Th…
1 year, 2 months ago
Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America
Episode 206
Orçun Selçuk on "The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization" (University of Notre Dame Press). The book compares Turkey under …
1 year, 2 months ago
Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism
Episode 205
Ezgi Başaran on "The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions Between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood" (IB Tauris). The book looks at the asp…
1 year, 3 months ago
Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations
Episode 204
Samim Akgönül, director of the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Strasbourg, on "One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations: The …
1 year, 3 months ago
Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
Episode 203
Çağdaş Üngör discusses her recent articles "A Bridge No More? Turkiye’s Geopolitical Significance in the 21st Century" in the journal Survival and "…
1 year, 4 months ago
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
Episode 202
Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at SOAS, on "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidatio…
1 year, 4 months ago
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Episode 201
Eugene Rogan on "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Allen Lane). The book examines how in July 18…
1 year, 5 months ago
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
Episode 200
Umit Kurt on "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard University Press). The book draws on archival sourc…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
Episode 199
Ozge Samanci on her graphic novel “Evil Eyes Sea” (Uncivilized Books). The semi-autobiographical story is a murder mystery centred on a group of stu…
1 year, 6 months ago