Andrew Finkel, a veteran journalist based in Turkey for decades, on his debut novel “The Adventure of the Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan” (Even Keel Press). It is a sprawling story exploring the mystery of Abdulhamid II’s obsession with Sherlock Holmes.
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Cem Emrence on 'remapping the Ottoman Middle East'
Maureen Freely on Sabahattin Ali and translating 'Madonna in a Fur Coat'
Umut Uzer on the history of Turkish nationalism
Shadi Hamid on 'Islamic exceptionalism,' Turkey and the Middle East
Ryan Gingeras on the fall of the Ottoman sultanate
Cihan Tuğal on the fall of the 'Turkish model'
Judy Saryan on Zabel Yessayan and the 1909 massacres of Armenians in Adana
Mustafa Gürbüz on 'rival Kurdish movements'
Şakir Dinçşahin on the life and times of Niyazi Berkes, 1908-1988
Frederike Geerdink on Turkey's Kurdish question
Ryan Gingeras on 'Atatürk: Heir to an Empire'
Kaya Genç talks Istanbul writing through the centuries
Nilgün Önder on the economic transformation of Turkey since 1980
Markus Dressler on the 'making of Turkish Alevi Islam
Cengiz Şişman on the Dönmes of Turkey
Michael M. Gunter on the Kurds of Syria in peace and war
Ozan Özavcı on Ahmet Ağaoğlu on liberalism in Turkey
Diana Darke on 'My House in Damascus'
Toni Alaranta on the West's misreading of Turkish politics after 2002
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