Ahmet Erdi Öztürk of Strasbourg University on the past, present and future of the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet). Öztürk is author of the paper “Turkey’s Diyanet under AKP rule: From protector to imposer of state ideology?” and co-author of “The Diyanet as a Turkish foreign policy tool.”
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Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today
Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
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