Seda Demiralp on what the recent local election results mean for Turkish politics. The conversation takes in what the main opposition CHP did right, what the ruling AKP did wrong, the emerging challenge to Erdogan posed by the Yeniden Refah Party, and the performance of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party.
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Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war
Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement
Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan
Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today
Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms
Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell
Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil
James Meyer on the life and times of Nazim Hikmet and his generation
Şebnem Gümüşcü on the past and future of Islamism in Turkey
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