Michael Provence of UC San Diego on "The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East" (Cambridge University Press). The book examines both continuities and ruptures in the years during and after the First World War, when the fall of the Ottoman Empire led to seismic shocks across the Middle East.
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Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
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
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