Turkey Book Talk Podcast
1) Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue
Mehmet Gurses, director of Kurdish Studies at the University of Central Florida, on his article “Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, recently published in the journal Current History. The articl...Show More
2) Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (Cambridge University Press) Whether intended as criticism or praise, today’s AKP government...Show More
3) Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay
Seçil Daǧtaș, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Waterloo, on “Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press...Show More
4) Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics
Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics in Populist Competitive A...Show More
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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