Malte Fuhrmann, research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, on “Port Cities of the East Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press). The book paints a panorama of cultural and social life in the diverse cities of Salonica, Istanbul and Izmir in the late Ottoman era.
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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
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
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