Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan chat about their book "The New Turkey and its Discontents" (Hurst), a good primer on how Turkey got to where it is today.
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Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world
Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state
Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria
Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism
Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities
Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent
Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey
Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey
Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East
Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'
Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’
Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
Ece Temelkuran on 'Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy'
Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present
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