Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSpyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms
Episode 178
Spyros Sofos on “Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism” (Edinburgh University Press). The book delves into the ambiguitie…
2 years, 4 months ago
Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell
Episode 177
Pat Yale on “Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell” (Trailblazer). The book tracks the footsteps of archaeolog…
2 years, 4 months ago
Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil
Episode 176
Anthony Gad Bigio on “A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic” (Hamilton Books). The boo…
2 years, 4 months ago
James Meyer on the life and times of Nazim Hikmet and his generation
Episode 175
James Meyer on “Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazım Hikmet and His Generation” (Oxford University Press), a new biography of the great 20th century po…
2 years, 5 months ago
Şebnem Gümüşcü on the past and future of Islamism in Turkey
Episode 174
Şebnem Gümüşcü on “Democracy or Authoritarianism: Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia” (Cambridge University Press). The book looks in …
2 years, 5 months ago
Constanze Letsch on gentrification and displacement in Istanbul
Episode 173
Constanze Letsch on “Territorial Stigmatisation: Urban Renewal and Displacement in a Central Istanbul Neighbourhood” (Transcript). The book examines …
2 years, 6 months ago
Ci Demi on his surreal, unsettling photographs of Istanbul
Episode 172
Ci Demi on his photographs of Istanbul, which present an eerie, unflattering image of the city through depopulated landscapes, urban sprawl and surre…
2 years, 6 months ago
Derin Koçer on how Erdogan won and why Turkey’s opposition failed
Episode 171
Derin Koçer discusses Turkey’s election. The conversation addresses how economic woes may actually have helped Erdogan’s campaign, why the main oppos…
2 years, 7 months ago
Demet Aslı Çaltekin on militarism and conscientious objection in Turkey
Episode 170
Demet Aslı Çaltekin on “Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service” (Edinburgh University Pres…
2 years, 7 months ago
Aron Aji on the unsettling work of Turkish novelist Ferit Edgü
Episode 169
Aron Aji discusses the life and work of Turkish author Ferit Edgü. Aji’s translations of Edgu’s excellent, austere novellas “The Wounded Age” and “E…
2 years, 8 months ago