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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Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
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
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
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