Turkey Book Talk #186 – Çağdaş Üngör, professor of political science and international relations at Marmara University, on Turkey-China ties.
The conversation addresses the modern history of relations between the two countries, Turkish public perceptions of China, Ankara’s stance on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority, and Beijing’s efforts to craft its message to Turkish public opinion.
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Üngör authored the paper “China Is Playing by Turkey’s Media Rules” for the Carnegie Endowment.
She also wrote “The ‘Chinese Vaccine’ and its Discontents: Turkey’s Public Debate on Sinovac during the COVID Crisis”, for the Middle East Institute.
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Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire
January 17, 2023
Turkey Book Talk #185 – Mostafa Minawi, associate professor of history at Cornell University, on “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire” (Stanford University Press).
Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, travelogues, personal letters, diaries, photos and interviews, the book follows the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-origin figures who flourished in the Ottoman capital at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century.
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Also check out Mostafa’s previous appearance on the podcast in January 2021, discussing “The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz” (Stanford University Press).
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Turkey Book Talk #184 – Gregory Goalwin, assistant professor and chair of the sociology department at Aurora University, on “Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey” (Rutgers University Press).
The book explores how religion – Catholicism in Ireland, Islam in Turkey – served as a fundamental building block of the two countries’ national identity throughout the 20th century.
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