Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
Episode 198
Sami Kent on “The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years” (Picador). The book paints a portrait of Turkey by combin…
1 year, 6 months ago
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
Episode 197
Istanbul-based photojournalist Bradley Secker discusses his work on migration, LGBT+ asylum seekers in the Middle East and Europe, the difficulties o…
1 year, 7 months ago
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
Episode 196
Bilge Yesil on “Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order” (University of Illinois Press)…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
Episode 195
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press). The book explores t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
Episode 194
Emre Toros on “Electoral Integrity in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book weighs up the country's democratic credentials after over two d…
1 year, 8 months ago
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Episode 193
Christopher Phillips on “Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East” (Yale University Press). The conversation explores the region'…
1 year, 8 months ago
Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
Episode 192
Seda Demiralp on what the recent local election results mean for Turkish politics. The conversation takes in what the main opposition CHP did right, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
Episode 191
Andrew Finkel, a veteran journalist based in Turkey for decades, on his debut novel “The Adventure of the Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock …
1 year, 9 months ago
Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
Episode 190
Bahar Baser on “An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile” (Edinburgh University Press), co-edited with Erdi Ozturk. The book examines the …
1 year, 10 months ago
İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
Episode 189
İlkay Yılmaz on “Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908” (Syracuse University Press). The book examines how paranoia about na…
1 year, 10 months ago