Ranked #1
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
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33mins
Ranked #2
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
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24mins
Ranked #3
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
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35mins
Ranked #4
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
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35mins
Ranked #5
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
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35mins
Ranked #6
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
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30mins
Ranked #7
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
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35mins
Ranked #8
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
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34mins
Ranked #9
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
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35mins
Ranked #10
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
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29mins
Ranked #11
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
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28mins
Ranked #12
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
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29mins
Ranked #13
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
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45mins
Ranked #14
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
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41mins
Ranked #15
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
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26mins