Giancarlo Casale on “Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in 17th Century Europe” (UC Press). Casale edited and translated the book, the first English-language edition of Osman of Timişoara's fascinating memoir describing his years as prisoner and slave in the Habsburg Empire from 1688 to 1699.
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Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border
Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
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
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