Jeremy Seal on “A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land” (Penguin). The book explores the legacy of Adnan Menderes, who became the Republic of Turkey's first democratically elected prime minister in 1950 before being overthrown in a military coup in May 1960.
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Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes
Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today
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