Jenny White, professor at Stockholm University's Institute for Turkish Studies, on "Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence" (Princeton University Press). The graphic novel, illustrated by Ergün Gündüz, tells the story of young protagonists caught up in the social turbulence leading to Turkey's 1980 coup.
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Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey
Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East
Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'
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
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