Turkey Book Talk

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Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.

Episodes

Marc Sinan Winrow on Turkey and the liberal international order

Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history

Işılay Gürsu on archaeology and public perceptions in Turkey

Onur İnal on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir

Sinem Adar on Turkey's role in a fracturing Western alliance

Hannah Lucinda Smith on Turkey, Russia and Europe's hinterlands

Doruk Erhan on the limits of Turkey's shift to autocracy

Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey

Brett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms

Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan

Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere

Ryan Gingeras on organised crime in Turkey's modern history

Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire

Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany

Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities

Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination

Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste

Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction

Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party