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Turkey Book Talk
Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.
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Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
Sean Mathews on “The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East” (Hurst). The book examines Greece's comeback as a regional player...
Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
Perin Gurel on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America's Wife, America's Concubine” (Cambridge University Press). The book explores th...
Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
Gokhan Bacik on his article “Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization,” recently published in the journal “Natio...
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history
Amy Marie Spangler on the late great author Leyla Erbil's What Remains. First published in 2011, the book is a multilayered narrative that sweeps from...
Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid
Özgür Özkan, visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the domestic and regional implications of Turkey's p...
Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey
Christopher Dole on “Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey” (Stanford University Press). The book examines the psychiatric respon...
Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas
Mustafa Kutlay on his recent Foreign Affairs article “Turkey's Middle-Power Dilemma”, examining the successes and failures of Ankara's bid to carve ou...
Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege
Bilge Yabancı on “Civil Society and Authoritarianism: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book exami...
Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain
Erik-Jan Zürcher on the uses and abuses of nostalgia for empire in contemporary Turkey and the UK. The conversation is based on Zurcher's recent lectu...
Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two
Talin Suciyan on “Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War: An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book exam...
David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey
David Tonge on “The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdogan” (Hurst). The book explores the politica...
Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
Richard Calis on “The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius” (Harvard University...
Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty
Fiona Mullen, director of the Nicosia-based Sapienta Economics consultancy, on uncertainty around the future of the decades-long Cyprus divide amid mo...
Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape
Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape and internet crackdown amid political turbulence, protests and mounting pressure on critics.
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Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy
Berk Esen on whether Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest heralds Turkey's shift from competitive authoritarianism to autocracy, dynamics driving the government's...
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Cuma Çiçek, author of “The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris), on the dynamics behind Ankara's push for the PKK...
Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
Selim Koru on "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (IB Tauris). The book dives deep into the worldview driving...
Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey
Claudia Liebelt on "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse University Press). Based on re...
Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'
Brett Wilson on his translation of Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu's 1922 novel "Nur Baba" (Routledge). The book's account of a debauched Bektashi Sufi lodg...
Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey
Omar Kadkoy, foreign policy, security and migration program coordinator at Heinrich Böll Stiftung's Istanbul office, on the future of Turkey's Syrian...
Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts
Zozan Pehlivan on "The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century" (Cambridge University Press). The book ex...
Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
Samuel J. Hirst on "Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939" (Oxford University Press). The conve...
Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay
Ralph Hubbell on translating Oğuz Atay's "Waiting for the Fear" (New York Review Books). Atay is widely seen as one the great Turkish fiction writers...
Jennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape
Jennifer Hattam reflects on a decade-and-a-half of reporting on Turkey's environmental, political and cultural agenda, as well as wrenching changes in...
Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset
Salim Çevik on his recent SWP paper "Turkey’s Reconciliation Efforts in the Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints in a Changing Regional Order". The...
Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America
Orçun Selçuk on "The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization" (University of Notre Dame Press). The book compares Turkey under Er...
Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism
Ezgi Başaran on "The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions Between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood" (IB Tauris). The book looks at the aspi...
Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations
Samim Akgönül, director of the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Strasbourg, on "One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations: The Hu...
Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
Çağdaş Üngör discusses her recent articles "A Bridge No More? Turkiye’s Geopolitical Significance in the 21st Century" in the journal Survival and "A...
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
Karabekir Akkoyunlu, Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at SOAS, on "Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation...
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Eugene Rogan on "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Allen Lane). The book examines how in July 1860...
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
Umit Kurt on "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province" (Harvard University Press). The book draws on archival source...
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
Ozge Samanci on her graphic novel “Evil Eyes Sea” (Uncivilized Books). The semi-autobiographical story is a murder mystery centred on a group of stude...
Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
Sami Kent on “The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years” (Picador). The book paints a portrait of Turkey by combini...
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
Istanbul-based photojournalist Bradley Secker discusses his work on migration, LGBT+ asylum seekers in the Middle East and Europe, the difficulties of...
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
Bilge Yesil on “Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order” (University of Illinois Press)....
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State” (Stanford University Press). The book explores th...
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
Emre Toros on “Electoral Integrity in Turkey” (Edinburgh University Press). The book weighs up the country's democratic credentials after over two dec...
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Christopher Phillips on “Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East” (Yale University Press). The conversation explores the region's...
Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
Seda Demiralp on what the recent local election results mean for Turkish politics. The conversation takes in what the main opposition CHP did right, w...