Federico Donelli on “Turkey in Africa: Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book looks at Ankara's bid to boost its diplomatic, cultural, economic and security influence in Africa, the effects it has had on the ground, and what to expect in the coming years.
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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
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey
Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era
Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought
Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans
Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s
Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup
Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy
Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey
Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency
Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa
Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey
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