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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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Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Jonathan Rugman, foreign correspondent at Channel 4 News, on “The Killing in the Consulate: Investigating the Life and D... Read more

18 Nov 2019

33mins

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Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

Caner Yelbaşı on “The Circassians in Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (IB Tauris/Bloo... Read more

2 Dec 2019

24mins

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Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism

Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism

Bilge Yabancı on her paper “Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey’s Government-oriented Youth Or... Read more

16 Dec 2019

35mins

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Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Mike Giglio, staff writer at The Atlantic, on "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" (Public Affairs)... Read more

6 Jan 2020

35mins

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Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi

Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi

Holly Shissler, associate professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at the University of Chicago, on the life and ... Read more

7 Oct 2019

35mins

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Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası

Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası

Zeynep Şentek on the environment, public health and politics in Dilovası, a heavily polluted industrial district near Is... Read more

4 Nov 2019

30mins

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Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary

Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary

Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on how Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria ... Read more

21 Oct 2019

35mins

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Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey

Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey

Deniz Çifçi on “The Kurds and the Politics of Turkey: Agency, Territory and Religion” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). Based on e... Read more

23 Sep 2019

34mins

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Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today

Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today

Onur İşçi on “Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book counter-intuitively argu... Read more

2 Mar 2020

35mins

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Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present

Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present

Ayhan Kaya of Istanbul Bilgi University on “Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants” (Palgrave Macmillan). The boo... Read more

20 Jan 2020

29mins

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Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West

Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West

Ayşe Zarakol on “After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West” (Cambridge University Press). The book examin... Read more

17 Feb 2020

28mins

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Erkan Saka on social media, trolling and fake news in Turkey

Erkan Saka on social media, trolling and fake news in Turkey

Erkan Saka on “Social Media and Politics in Turkey: A Journey Through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling and Fake Ne... Read more

3 Feb 2020

29mins

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Ünver Rüstem on the Baroque in Istanbul and Ottoman rise and decline

Ünver Rüstem on the Baroque in Istanbul and Ottoman rise and decline

Ünver Rüstem on "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton University P... Read more

25 May 2020

45mins

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Michael Wuthrich on main opposition mayors and populism in Turkey

Michael Wuthrich on main opposition mayors and populism in Turkey

Michael Wuthrich of the University of Kansas on "The Pushback Against Populism: Running on 'Radical Love' in Turkey", co... Read more

11 May 2020

41mins

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Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı on Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years, 1919-21

Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı on Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years, 1919-21

Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı discuss the Meşher gallery's exhibition on Ukrainian painter Alexis Gritchenko's Istanb... Read more

27 Apr 2020

26mins

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