Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
November 25, 2016
Kaya Genç returns to the Turkey Book Talk podcast. This time he joins to discuss his new book “Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey,” which profiles young Turks from across the political spectrum.
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My review of the book will be appearing in the next couple of weeks in the Times Literary Supplement so keep your eyes peeled for that.
Here’s the episode from earlier this year with Kaya discussing “An Istanbul Anthology”, which he edited:
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Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
November 11, 2016
Latest Turkey Book Talk episode: Burcu Şentürk chats about her book “Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities” (IB Tauris).
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Here’s my Hürriyet Daily News review of the book.
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George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
October 28, 2016
George Junne talks to Turkey Book Talk about “The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan” (IB Tauris), exploring the key role that eunuchs played in the Ottoman state and the broader question of slavery in the empire.
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Here’s my review of the book at Hürriyet Daily News.
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Özge Samancı on ‘Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey’
October 12, 2016
Özge Samancı talks to Turkey Book Talk about her bestselling graphic memoir “Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey” (Farrar Straux Giroux). It’s a charming book and everyone I know who has read it raves about it.
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Here’s my review of the book from a few months ago.
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Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’
September 30, 2016
Ali Yaycıoğlu joins Turkey Book Talk to discuss “Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions” (Stanford University Press), examining the extraordinary upheavals in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the conversation he talks about the long-term effects of these upheavals and what the period can tell us about contemporary Turkey’s turbulent political landscape.
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Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
September 17, 2016
New Turkey Book Talk episode with Michael Wuthrich, chatting about “National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics and the Party System” (Syracuse University Press).
This really is an excellent book that overhauls much conventional wisdom about Turkish politics shared by right and left.
Unlike the deceptively boring title of the book, this episode’s title is stupidly ambitious. But we do cover a lot of ground. I’m really pleased with it – hope you enjoy/learn from it.
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Here’s my review of the book in HDN.
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Ece Temelkuran on ‘Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy’
September 2, 2016
Ece Temelkuran joins Turkey Book Talk to discuss “Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy” (Zed Books), her vivid and personal account of the current state of the country.
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My review of this one is pending – waiting for it to be published in the TLS before posting in abridged form in Hürriyet.
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Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media, past and present
August 20, 2016
Turkey Book Talk is back after a one month hiatus.
We return with a good one: Bilge Yeşil speaks about her book “Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State” (University of Illinois Press).
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Here’s my review of the book.
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Post-coup attempt
August 6, 2016
I’m currently on holiday, but posted below are a couple of things I wrote on the coup attempt and its aftermath.
The view from Taksim Square – Times Literary Supplement.
I also spoke on the TLS podcast about that piece. Listen here (my bit is from 30.22). I wouldn’t have framed the whole thing as the presenters do, but they’re not the only ones who got the balance wrong in the aftermath of the coup, as I describe here:
Turkey and the West are heading for a breakup – War on the Rocks.
I took this photo in Taksim Square at around midnight on the night of July 15/16, just before anti-coup protesters started to amass.
I’ll be posting the next Turkey Book Talk podcast in two weeks. Thanks for your patience.
Cem Emrence on ‘remapping the Ottoman Middle East’
July 15, 2016
Cem Emrence speaks to Turkey Book Talk about his book “Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam” (IB Tauris).
The book looks at Ottoman modernization through the 19th and early 20th centuries using an original model of “three-trajectories”: The coast, the interior, and the frontier, which each followed distinct paths to modernity.
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Here’s my review of the book at Hürriyet Daily News.
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Maureen Freely joins to discuss the tragic life of author Sabahattin Ali and her translation of his classic 1943 novel “Madonna in a Fur Coat,” just published in a first ever English edition by Penguin.
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Check my review of the book at Hürriyet Daily News, previously published in the Times Literary Supplement.
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Umut Uzer on the history of Turkish nationalism
June 17, 2016
Umut Uzer of Istanbul Technical University joins to discuss his new book “An Intellectual History of Turkish Nationalism: Between Turkish Ethnicity and Islamic Identity” (Utah University Press).
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Here’s my review of the book.
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