Turkey Book Talk Podcast
1) Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries
Nora Fisher Onar, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at University of San Francisco, on “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond” (Cambridge Un...Show More
2) Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey
Sean Mathews, Athens-based journalist at Middle East Eye, on “The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East” (Hurst). The book examines Greece’s comeback as a regional player, a...Show More
3) Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West
Perin Gurel, associate professor of American Studies and associate professor of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, Ameri...Show More
4) Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme
Gokhan Bacik, professor in the department of politics and European studies at Palacky University, on his article “Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization,” recen...Show More
5) Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history
Amy Marie Spangler on the late great author Leyla Erbil’s What Remains. Amy co-translated the novel, along with Alev Ersan and Mark David Wyers, for an edition that will be published by Deep Vellum in...Show More
6) Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid
Özgür Özkan, visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the domestic and regional implications of Turkey’s push for the Kurdish militant group’s dissolution. ...Show More
7) Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey
Christopher Dole, professor of anthropology at Amherst College, on “Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey” (Stanford University Press). The book is an account of the psychiatric...Show More
8) Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas
Mustafa Kutlay, senior lecturer in comparative politics at City St George’s University of London, discusses his recent Foreign Affairs article “Turkey’s Middle-Power Dilemma”. Turkey is widely cited ...Show More
9) Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege
Bilge Yabanci, Ikerbasque Fellow and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, on “Civil Society and Authoritarianism: Co-optation, Repression and Contestation in Turkey” (Edinburgh ...Show More
10) Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain
Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor emeritus of Turkish Studies at Leiden University, on the uses and abuses of nostalgia for empire in contemporary Turkey and the UK. The conversation is based on a lecture...Show More