Federico Donelli on “Turkey in Africa: Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book looks at Ankara's bid to boost its diplomatic, cultural, economic and security influence in Africa, the effects it has had on the ground, and what to expect in the coming years.
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war
Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement
Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan
Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today
Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms
Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell
Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil
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