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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Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası
Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary
Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey
Nur Deriş on the epic life and times of Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel
Emre Erşen on Turkey's pivot to Eurasia
Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey
Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish
Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey
Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios
Elif Mahir Metinsoy on Ottoman women during World War I
Selim Deringil on the Ottoman twilight in the Arab lands
Toygar Sinan Baykan on populism and organisation in the AKP
Reuben Silverman on explorations in Turkey’s 'ever-present past'
Patrick Keddie on football and the story of modern Turkey
Şevket Pamuk on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey since 1820
Ceren Lord on religious politics in Turkey
Doğuş Şimşek and Yusuf Sayman on African migrants in Istanbul
Selda Tuncer on women and public space in Ankara, 1950 to 1980
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