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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Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy
Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes
Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
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