Umut Azak of Istanbul's Okan University on Hagia Sophia's conversion from museum to mosque, the history of calls on Turkey's religious right to take the step, and the future of the country's religious nationalist status quo under President Erdoğan.
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Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
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Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey
Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents
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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
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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
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Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present
Cem Emrence on 'remapping the Ottoman Middle East'
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