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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Karabekir Akkoyunlu on the 'exit from democracy' in Turkey and beyond
Edhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality
Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State
Ezgi Başaran on ‘frontline Turkey,’ Gülenists and the Kurdish peace process
Raja Shehadeh on 'travels with his Ottoman uncle,' Palestine and the First World War
Lora Sarı on the Istanbul-based Armenian publisher Aras
Özlem Madi-Şişman on Muslims, money and democracy in Turkey
Fikret Adaman on Erdoğan, the environment and economic policy in Turkey
Alexander Clarkson on Turks and Kurds in Germany
Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk
Cenk Özbay on male prostitution in Istanbul and LGBT rights in Turkey
Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey
Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire
Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege
Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey
Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey
Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East
Nigar Göksel on Turkey's PKK conflict through the case of Nusaybin
Ryan Gingeras on Turkey's 'deep state of crisis'
Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world
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