Turkey Book Talk episode #56 – Boğaziçi University Professor Edhem Eldem on “To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II” (Palgrave Macmillan), which he co-edited with Houssine Alloul and Henk de Smaele.
The book explores a deadly assassination attempt targeting the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul in 1905, and appears at a time when Abdülhamid II is the subject of a growing popular obsession among religious conservatives in Turkey.
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Here’s my review of the book at HDN.
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As mentioned in the podcast, here’s a recent article from me in History Today on this Abdülhamid revisionism and comparisons between him and Erdoğan.
As also mentioned, stay tuned for details of a new membership system coming for Turkey Book Talk. As part of the system, paying subscribers will get access to a range of extra content and benefits. I will post more details in due course, hopefully by the time of the next episode in two weeks.
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Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State
January 5, 2018
First Turkey Book Talk episode of 2018 – Arbil-based journalist CATHY OTTEN discusses “WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES: YEZIDI WOMEN AND THE ISLAMIC STATE” (OR Books), a deeply reported account of the suffering of the Yezidi religious minority over the border in Iraq.
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Here’s my review of the book at HDN.
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Recent reporting by Cathy Otten
- How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion – The Atlantic, 22/12/2107
- The Persian Leopards of Iraqi Kurdistan – Brown Book, October 2017
- Life after ISIS Slavery for Yazidi Women and Children – New Yorker, 31/08/2017
- Slaves of ISIS: The Long Walk of the Yazidi Women – The Guardian, 25/07/2017
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