Birol Başkan on “The Nation or the Ummah: Islamism and Turkish Foreign Policy” (SUNY Press), co-written with Ömer Taşpınar. The book examines Turkey's foreign policy during the Arab Spring era, when Ankara threw its weight behind protest movements seeking to overthrow established regimes around the Middle East.
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Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk
Cenk Özbay on male prostitution in Istanbul and LGBT rights in Turkey
Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey
Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire
Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege
Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey
Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey
Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East
Nigar Göksel on Turkey's PKK conflict through the case of Nusaybin
Ryan Gingeras on Turkey's 'deep state of crisis'
Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world
Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state
Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria
Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism
Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities
Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis
Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent
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