Mike Giglio, staff writer at The Atlantic, on "Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate" (Public Affairs). The book describes Giglio's years reporting on the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq, including time embedded on the front line with Iraqi special forces and the Syrian Kurdish YPG.
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Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities
Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent
Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey
Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents
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Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East
Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
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Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’
Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
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