Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, associate professor of history at The College of William and Mary, on “The Kizilbash Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community” (Edinburgh University Press). The book traces the origins of today's Alevis as a unified religious group back to the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of Ara Guler
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Begum Adalet on the Cold War origins of Turkey-US ties
Doğu Eroğlu on investigating ISIS networks in Turkey
Sinan Yıldırmaz on urban migration and the peasantry in Turkish politics
Nazlı Alimen on faith, headscarves and conservative fashion in Turkey
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on the rising profile of Turkey's religious affairs directorate
Halil Karaveli on a history of authoritarianism in modern Turkey
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey-Russia relations, past and present
Amy Spangler on the writing of Sevgi Soysal and running a literary agency in Istanbul
Michael Provence on the last Ottoman generation and the making of the Middle East
Jonathan Varjabedian on family letters from Anatolia to America, 1912 to 1919
Cengiz Erişen on emotions and election campaigns in Turkey
Erin Banco on the plundering of Iraqi Kurdistan's oil wealth
John McManus on football culture and society in Turkey
Volkan Yılmaz on the politics of healthcare and welfare in Turkey
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey and Europe beyond hypocrisy
Diana Darke on Abu Chaker and the modern history of Syria
Max Hoffman on Turkey's latest nationalist wave
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