Turkey Book Talk

By William Armstrong

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

Episode Date
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