Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey

August 2, 2022

Turkey Book Talk episode 173 – Gönül Bozoğlu, Leverhulme Research Fellow at Newcastle University, on “Museums, Emotion and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey” (Routledge).

The book focuses on the Panorama 1453 Museum in Istanbul and the Atatürk and War of Independence Museum in Ankara to show how history in Turkey is often a battleground where contemporary identities clash for supremacy.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in AKP, Ankara, Atatürk, History, Interviews, Islamism, Istanbul, Kemalism, Military, Nationalism, neo-Ottomanism, Ottoman history, Podcast, Politics, Secularism, Turkey, Turkish history, Turkish politics
Tags: Gonul Bozoglu, heritage, interview, museums, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkey, Turkey Book Talk, Turkish history, Turkish politics

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