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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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
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
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
Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo
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
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