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Back to SearchTezcan Gümüş on enduring authoritarianism in Turkey’s democratic history
Episode 168
Tezcan Gümüş on “Turkey's Political Leaders: Authoritarian Tendencies in a Democratic State” (Edinburgh University Press). The book shows how almost …
2 years, 8 months ago
Paul Levin on Turks and Kurds in Sweden, geopolitics and Nato
Episode 167
Paul Levin, director of Stockholm University’s Institute for Turkish Studies, on the power dynamics of Turkish and Kurdish communities in Sweden and …
2 years, 9 months ago
Maureen Freely on the turbulent life and work of Turkish author Tezer Özlü
Episode 166
Maureen Freely on the life and work of the late Tezer Özlü. Her translation of Özlü’s 1980 novel “Cold Nights of Childhood” has just been published f…
2 years, 9 months ago
Doğan Gürpınar on the intellectual order of populist Islamism in Turkey
Episode 165
Doğan Gürpınar, historian at Istanbul Technical University, on “Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey: The Intellectual Order of Islamism an…
2 years, 9 months ago
Nesi Altaras on Turkish Jews applying for Spanish and Portuguese citizenship
Episode 164
Nesi Altaras on “A Privilege That Cannot Be Bought: Jews of Turkey and Citizenship Restitution from Portugal and Spain” (Libra Books). The book weig…
2 years, 10 months ago
Selim Koru on Turkey’s earthquakes and their political aftershocks
Episode 163
Selim Koru on the devastating recent earthquakes. The conversation compares their effect with the Marmara earthquake of 1999, as well as touching on …
2 years, 10 months ago
Çağdaş Üngör on what Turkey and China want from Sino-Turkish relations
Episode 162
Çağdaş Üngör, professor of political science and international relations at Marmara University, on the history of Turkey-China ties, Turkish public p…
2 years, 11 months ago
Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire
Episode 161
Mostafa Minawi on “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire” (Stanford University Press). The book follows the rise and fall …
3 years ago
Greg Goalwin on religious nationalism and identity in Turkey and Ireland
Episode 160
Gregory Goalwin on “Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey” (Rutgers University Press). The boo…
3 years ago
Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Turkey and abroad
Episode 159
Derya Ozkul on “The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation” (Edinburgh University Press), a volume sh…
3 years, 1 month ago