Yigit Akin on “When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire” (Stanford University Press), a richly researched study on the consequences of the First World War on everyday social life across Ottoman territories as the empire collapsed.
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Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR
Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century
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Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire
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Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş
Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs
Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa
Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe
Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
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