Holly Shissler, associate professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish History at the University of Chicago, on the life and work of Ahmet Mithat Efendi (1844-1912). The publisher of major newspaper Tercuman-i Hakikat, Ahmet Mithat also wrote many fictional works including Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, which appeared in English in 2016.
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Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
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Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
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