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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Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey
Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents
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'
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