Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey
Long-time Istanbul-based journalist Jennifer Hattam on her work updating the Lonely Planet travel guide to Turkey. The conversation touches...
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Turkey Book Talk
Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. A new episode is posted every two weeks. Latest links: https://armstrongwilliam.wordpress.com/
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Listen to Turkey Book Talk, a Society & Culture podcast by William Armstrong. Stream 252 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 252 episodesBrett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms
Brett Wilson, associate professor of history and public policy at Central European University, on his article ”Sufi Leaders in the early Tur...
Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan
Suzy Hansen on “From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The book focuses...
Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere
Faisal Devji on “Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam” (Yale University Press). The book argues that in the late 19th and earl...
Ryan Gingeras on organised crime in Turkey's modern history
Ryan Gingeras, author of “Mafia: A Global History” (Simon & Schuster) and “Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey” (Oxford...
Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire
Mustafa Aksakal, associate professor of history at Georgetown University, on “The War that Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of...
Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany
Michelle Lynn Kahn on “Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish-German History” (Cambridge University Press). Please s...
Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities
Murat Yıldız, associate professor of history at Skidmore College, on “The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities...
Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination
Berin Gür on “The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-Nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy” (...
Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste
Journalist Adnan Khan on the spectacular growth of Turkey's plastic waste imports and the role of migrant labour in the sector. His work pai...
Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction
Burcu Karahan on her translation of “One Thousand and One Kisses: The Most Joyous and Flirtatious Stories” (Translation Attached). The book...
Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Mehmet Gurses on his article “Turkey's Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, published in the Current History journal. The conversation places the...
Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (Cambridge University Press). Tod...
Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay
Seçil Daǧtaș on “Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press). The b...
Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics
Senem Aydın-Düzgit on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics in Populist Competitive Authoritarianism,” published in the South Eur...
Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries
Nora Fisher Onar on “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond” (Cambridge University Press). The...
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 regio...
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 e...
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 jo...
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 s...
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