James Meyer on “Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazım Hikmet and His Generation” (Oxford University Press), a new biography of the great 20th century poet. It draws on previously untapped archival sources to situate Nazım Hikmet within a broader generation of border-crossing Turkish communists.
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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
Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state
Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria
Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism
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
Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey
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
Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'
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
Ece Temelkuran on 'Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy'
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