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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Ryan Gingeras on the paradoxes of Turkey in the age of Atatürk
Omar Kadkoy on Syrian refugees, the EU deal and migrants in Turkey
Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today
Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West
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Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present
Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism
Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası
Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary
Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey
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