Dimitar Bechev of the Atlantic Council on the past and present of Turkey-Russia relations, which he describes as "rich in history, ambivalent and rich in nuance, blending fierce competition with cooperation."
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Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
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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
Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade
Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question
Oya Dursun-Özkanca on Turkey's foreign policy after Covid-19
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