Mostafa Minawi on "The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz" (Stanford University Press), examining the Ottoman Empire's bid to expand its footprint in Africa and Arabia in the late-19th century age of imperialism.
Become a Turkey Book Talk member to support the podcast and get English/Turkish transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, exclusive access to more links, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics.
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity
Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey
Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II
Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey
Louis Fishman on Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era
Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo
Ahmet Kuru on Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment
Zeynep Çelik on archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Alan Mikhail on Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern world
Sinem Adar on the militarisation of Turkey's foreign policy
Richard Antaramian on Ottoman modernisation and the Armenian community
Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress
Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade
Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
HauntingLive
Dr. Paul’s Worldviews
Pharmacy Podcast Network
The Ben Shapiro Show
Morning Wire