Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
Episode 188
Alexander Christie-Miller on “To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul” (William Collins). He worked for many years as the Ti…
1 year, 11 months ago
Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
Episode 187
Tuğba Tekerek on “Provincial Universities: The AK Party’s Backyard Campus" (İletişim). The book examines the government's push to open over 100 unive…
1 year, 11 months ago
Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
Episode 186
Timur Hammond on “Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul” (University of California Press). The book is a sociologic…
2 years ago
İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
Episode 185
İlkim Büke Okyar on “Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other” (Syracuse University Press). The conversat…
2 years ago
Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
Episode 184
Berk Esen on the troubled future of Turkey’s democracy and the challenges facing its opposition parties heading into 2024. Berk recently co-authored …
2 years, 1 month ago
Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war
Episode 183
Sinem Adar, associate at the Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, on Turkey’s response t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement
Episode 182
Cihan Dizdaroğlu on “Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework” (Edinburgh University Press). The book looks at how ties …
2 years, 2 months ago
Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years
Episode 181
Alp Yenen on “A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments” (Leiden University Press). The book includes 100 chapters, writ…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan
Episode 180
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and Privilege” (Edinburgh University Press). The book narrates …
2 years, 3 months ago
Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today
Episode 179
Onur İşçi on “Turkey at a Crossroads: The Soviet Threat and Postwar Realignment, 1945-1946”, published in the journal Diplomatic History. The article…
2 years, 3 months ago