Turkey Book Talk

By William Armstrong

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 Sep 12, 2020


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

Episode Date
Onur İnal on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir
Aug 04, 2026
Sinem Adar on Turkey's role in a fracturing Western alliance
Jul 21, 2026
Hannah Lucinda Smith on Turkey, Russia and Europe's hinterlands
Jun 23, 2026
Doruk Erhan on the limits of Turkey's shift to autocracy
Jun 09, 2026
Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey
May 26, 2026
Brett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms
May 12, 2026
Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan
Apr 28, 2026
Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere
Apr 14, 2026
Ryan Gingeras on organised crime in Turkey's modern history
Mar 31, 2026
Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire
Mar 17, 2026
Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany
Mar 03, 2026
Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities
Feb 17, 2026
Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination
Feb 03, 2026
Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste
Jan 20, 2026
Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction
Jan 06, 2026
Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Dec 22, 2025
Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Dec 09, 2025
Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay
Nov 25, 2025
Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics
Nov 11, 2025
Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries
Oct 28, 2025
Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
Oct 14, 2025
Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
Sep 30, 2025
Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
Sep 16, 2025
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history
Sep 02, 2025
Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid
Aug 19, 2025
Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey
Aug 05, 2025
Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas
Jul 22, 2025
Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege
Jul 08, 2025
Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain
Jun 24, 2025
Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two
Jun 10, 2025
David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey
May 27, 2025
Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece
May 13, 2025
Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty
Apr 29, 2025
Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape
Apr 15, 2025
Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy
Apr 01, 2025
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Mar 18, 2025
Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order
Mar 04, 2025
Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey
Feb 18, 2025
Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'
Feb 04, 2025
Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey
Jan 21, 2025
Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts
Jan 07, 2025
Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation
Dec 17, 2024
Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay
Dec 12, 2024
Jennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape
Nov 19, 2024
Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset
Nov 05, 2024
Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America
Oct 22, 2024
Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism
Oct 08, 2024
Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations
Sep 24, 2024
Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
Sep 10, 2024
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
Aug 27, 2024
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Aug 13, 2024
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
Jul 30, 2024
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
Jul 16, 2024
Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
Jul 02, 2024
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
Jun 17, 2024
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
Jun 03, 2024
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
May 20, 2024
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
May 06, 2024
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Apr 22, 2024
Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
Apr 08, 2024
Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
Mar 25, 2024
Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
Mar 11, 2024
İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
Feb 26, 2024
Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
Feb 12, 2024
Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
Jan 29, 2024
Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
Jan 15, 2024
İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
Jan 01, 2024
Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
Dec 11, 2023
Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war
Nov 27, 2023
Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement
Nov 13, 2023
Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years
Oct 30, 2023
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan
Oct 16, 2023
Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today
Oct 02, 2023
Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms
Sep 18, 2023
Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell
Sep 04, 2023
Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil
Aug 21, 2023
James Meyer on the life and times of Nazim Hikmet and his generation
Aug 07, 2023
Şebnem Gümüşcü on the past and future of Islamism in Turkey
Jul 24, 2023
Constanze Letsch on gentrification and displacement in Istanbul
Jul 10, 2023
Ci Demi on his surreal, unsettling photographs of Istanbul
Jun 26, 2023
Derin Koçer on how Erdogan won and why Turkey’s opposition failed
Jun 12, 2023
Demet Aslı Çaltekin on militarism and conscientious objection in Turkey
May 29, 2023
Aron Aji on the unsettling work of Turkish novelist Ferit Edgü
May 15, 2023
Tezcan Gümüş on enduring authoritarianism in Turkey’s democratic history
May 01, 2023
Paul Levin on Turks and Kurds in Sweden, geopolitics and Nato
Apr 17, 2023
Maureen Freely on the turbulent life and work of Turkish author Tezer Özlü
Apr 03, 2023
Doğan Gürpınar on the intellectual order of populist Islamism in Turkey
Mar 20, 2023
Nesi Altaras on Turkish Jews applying for Spanish and Portuguese citizenship
Mar 06, 2023
Selim Koru on Turkey’s earthquakes and their political aftershocks
Feb 20, 2023
Çağdaş Üngör on what Turkey and China want from Sino-Turkish relations
Jan 30, 2023
Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire
Jan 16, 2023
Greg Goalwin on religious nationalism and identity in Turkey and Ireland
Jan 02, 2023
Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Turkey and abroad
Dec 19, 2022
Ryan Gingeras on the last days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922
Dec 05, 2022
Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu
Nov 21, 2022
Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad
Nov 07, 2022
Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
Oct 24, 2022
Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
Oct 10, 2022
Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Sep 26, 2022
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Sep 12, 2022
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Aug 29, 2022
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Aug 15, 2022
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Aug 01, 2022
Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Jul 18, 2022
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Jul 04, 2022
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Jun 20, 2022
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
Jun 06, 2022
Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
May 23, 2022
Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
May 09, 2022
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
Apr 25, 2022
Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
Apr 11, 2022
Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
Mar 28, 2022
Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
Mar 14, 2022
York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
Feb 28, 2022
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes
Feb 14, 2022
Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
Jan 31, 2022
Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
Jan 17, 2022
Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today
Jan 03, 2022
Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
Dec 20, 2021
Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
Dec 06, 2021
Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Nov 22, 2021
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Nov 08, 2021
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Oct 25, 2021
Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Oct 11, 2021
Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe
Sep 27, 2021
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Sep 13, 2021
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Aug 30, 2021
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Aug 16, 2021
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Aug 02, 2021
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Jul 19, 2021
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Jul 05, 2021
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Jun 21, 2021
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Jun 07, 2021
Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
May 24, 2021
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
May 10, 2021
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Apr 26, 2021
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Apr 12, 2021
Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
Mar 29, 2021
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Mar 15, 2021
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Mar 01, 2021
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Feb 15, 2021
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Feb 01, 2021
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Jan 18, 2021
Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
Jan 04, 2021
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Dec 21, 2020
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Dec 07, 2020
Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
Nov 23, 2020
Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey
Nov 09, 2020
Louis Fishman on Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era
Oct 26, 2020
Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo
Oct 12, 2020
Ahmet Kuru on Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment
Sep 28, 2020
Zeynep Çelik on archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Sep 15, 2020
Alan Mikhail on Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern world
Sep 01, 2020
Sinem Adar on the militarisation of Turkey's foreign policy
Aug 17, 2020
Richard Antaramian on Ottoman modernisation and the Armenian community
Aug 03, 2020
Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress
Jul 20, 2020
Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade
Jul 06, 2020
Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question
Jun 22, 2020
Oya Dursun-Özkanca on Turkey's foreign policy after Covid-19
Jun 08, 2020
Ünver Rüstem on the Baroque in Istanbul and Ottoman rise and decline
May 25, 2020
Michael Wuthrich on main opposition mayors and populism in Turkey
May 11, 2020
Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı on Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years, 1919-21
Apr 27, 2020
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump on Alevis in today's Turkey and in 15th century Anatolia
Apr 13, 2020
Ryan Gingeras on the paradoxes of Turkey in the age of Atatürk
Mar 31, 2020
Omar Kadkoy on Syrian refugees, the EU deal and migrants in Turkey
Mar 16, 2020
Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today
Mar 02, 2020
Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West
Feb 17, 2020
Erkan Saka on social media, trolling and fake news in Turkey
Feb 03, 2020
Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present
Jan 20, 2020
Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Jan 06, 2020
Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism
Dec 16, 2019
Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
Dec 02, 2019
Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Nov 18, 2019
Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası
Nov 04, 2019
Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary
Oct 21, 2019
Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Oct 07, 2019
Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey
Sep 23, 2019
Nur Deriş on the epic life and times of Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel
Sep 09, 2019
Emre Erşen on Turkey's pivot to Eurasia
Aug 26, 2019
Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey
Aug 13, 2019
Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish
Jul 29, 2019
Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey
Jul 15, 2019
Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios
Jul 01, 2019
Elif Mahir Metinsoy on Ottoman women during World War I
Jun 17, 2019
Selim Deringil on the Ottoman twilight in the Arab lands
Jun 03, 2019
Toygar Sinan Baykan on populism and organisation in the AKP
May 20, 2019
Reuben Silverman on explorations in Turkey’s 'ever-present past'
May 06, 2019
Patrick Keddie on football and the story of modern Turkey
Apr 22, 2019
Şevket Pamuk on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey since 1820
Apr 08, 2019
Ceren Lord on religious politics in Turkey
Mar 25, 2019
Doğuş Şimşek and Yusuf Sayman on African migrants in Istanbul
Mar 11, 2019
Selda Tuncer on women and public space in Ankara, 1950 to 1980
Feb 25, 2019
Selim Koru on Turkey, Russia and the power of political resentment
Feb 11, 2019
Maureen Freely on the life and work of Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Jan 28, 2019
Caroline Eden on a culinary journey along the Black Sea coast
Jan 14, 2019
Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One
Dec 31, 2018
Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of Ara Guler
Dec 10, 2018
Alev Scott on 'Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'
Nov 26, 2018
Avedis Hadjian on the 'hidden Armenians' of Anatolia
Nov 13, 2018
Begum Adalet on the Cold War origins of Turkey-US ties
Oct 29, 2018
Doğu Eroğlu on investigating ISIS networks in Turkey
Oct 15, 2018
Sinan Yıldırmaz on urban migration and the peasantry in Turkish politics
Oct 01, 2018
Nazlı Alimen on faith, headscarves and conservative fashion in Turkey
Sep 17, 2018
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on the rising profile of Turkey's religious affairs directorate
Sep 03, 2018
Halil Karaveli on a history of authoritarianism in modern Turkey
Aug 20, 2018
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey-Russia relations, past and present
Aug 06, 2018
Amy Spangler on the writing of Sevgi Soysal and running a literary agency in Istanbul
Jul 23, 2018
Michael Provence on the last Ottoman generation and the making of the Middle East
Jul 10, 2018
Jonathan Varjabedian on family letters from Anatolia to America, 1912 to 1919
Jun 25, 2018
Cengiz Erişen on emotions and election campaigns in Turkey
Jun 11, 2018
Erin Banco on the plundering of Iraqi Kurdistan's oil wealth
May 28, 2018
John McManus on football culture and society in Turkey
May 14, 2018
Volkan Yılmaz on the politics of healthcare and welfare in Turkey
May 01, 2018
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey and Europe beyond hypocrisy
Apr 16, 2018
Diana Darke on Abu Chaker and the modern history of Syria
Apr 02, 2018
Max Hoffman on Turkey's latest nationalist wave
Mar 19, 2018
Ceren Baysan on voters, parties and polarization in Turkey
Mar 05, 2018
Mehmet Kentel on the world of Ottoman caricaturist Yusuf Franko
Feb 19, 2018
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on the 'exit from democracy' in Turkey and beyond
Feb 05, 2018
Edhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality
Jan 18, 2018
Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State
Jan 04, 2018
Ezgi Başaran on ‘frontline Turkey,’ Gülenists and the Kurdish peace process
Dec 21, 2017
Raja Shehadeh on 'travels with his Ottoman uncle,' Palestine and the First World War
Dec 07, 2017
Lora Sarı on the Istanbul-based Armenian publisher Aras
Nov 23, 2017
Özlem Madi-Şişman on Muslims, money and democracy in Turkey
Nov 10, 2017
Fikret Adaman on Erdoğan, the environment and economic policy in Turkey
Oct 27, 2017
Alexander Clarkson on Turks and Kurds in Germany
Oct 12, 2017
Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk
Sep 29, 2017
Cenk Özbay on male prostitution in Istanbul and LGBT rights in Turkey
Sep 15, 2017
Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey
Sep 01, 2017
Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire
Aug 18, 2017
Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege
Aug 04, 2017
Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey
Jul 21, 2017
Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey
Jul 07, 2017
Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East
Jun 23, 2017
Nigar Göksel on Turkey's PKK conflict through the case of Nusaybin
Jun 02, 2017
Ryan Gingeras on Turkey's 'deep state of crisis'
May 18, 2017
Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world
May 05, 2017
Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state
Apr 21, 2017
Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria
Apr 07, 2017
Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism
Mar 24, 2017
Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities
Mar 10, 2017
Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
Feb 24, 2017
Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent
Feb 10, 2017
Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey
Jan 27, 2017
Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents
Jan 13, 2017
Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey
Dec 21, 2016
Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East
Dec 09, 2016
Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
Nov 25, 2016
Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
Nov 11, 2016