Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on “Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the 21st Century" (Edinburgh University Press). Based on extensive field...
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Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
Jenny White, professor at Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies, on "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Prin...
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Jeremy Seal on “A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land” (Penguin). The book explores the legacy of Adnan Men...
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Taner Doğan on “Communication Strategies in Turkey: Erdogan, the AKP and Political Messaging” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). Support Turkey Book Talk by beco...
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Murat Erdoğan, director of Turkish German University's Migration and Integration Research Centre, on the future of Syrians in Turkey. Erdoğan oversees...
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Chiara Maritato on "Women, Religion and the State in Contemporary Turkey" (Cambridge University Press), examining the causes and effects of women's ex...
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Mostafa Minawi on "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz" (Stanford University Press), examining the Ottom...
Omer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
Omer Taşpınar, professor at the US National War College and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on “What the West is Getting Wrong about the M...
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Gülay Türkmen on "Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds and the Limits of Religious Unity" (Oxford University Press). The book addresses how Islam h...
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Mustafa Menshawy, author of “Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood: Self, Society and the State” (Palgrave), on how the migration of thousands of Muslim Brot...