Suna Çağaptay on “The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural and Social History of Bursa” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book examines Bursa's history from antiquity to today, particularly its hybrid and plural character after transitioning from Byzantine to Ottoman rule in the 14th century.
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Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’
Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
Ece Temelkuran on 'Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy'
Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present
Cem Emrence on 'remapping the Ottoman Middle East'
Maureen Freely on Sabahattin Ali and translating 'Madonna in a Fur Coat'
Umut Uzer on the history of Turkish nationalism
Shadi Hamid on 'Islamic exceptionalism,' Turkey and the Middle East
Ryan Gingeras on the fall of the Ottoman sultanate
Cihan Tuğal on the fall of the 'Turkish model'
Judy Saryan on Zabel Yessayan and the 1909 massacres of Armenians in Adana
Mustafa Gürbüz on 'rival Kurdish movements'
Şakir Dinçşahin on the life and times of Niyazi Berkes, 1908-1988
Frederike Geerdink on Turkey's Kurdish question
Ryan Gingeras on 'Atatürk: Heir to an Empire'
Kaya Genç talks Istanbul writing through the centuries
Nilgün Önder on the economic transformation of Turkey since 1980
Markus Dressler on the 'making of Turkish Alevi Islam
Cengiz Şişman on the Dönmes of Turkey
Michael M. Gunter on the Kurds of Syria in peace and war
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