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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Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu
Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad
Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins
Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey
Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey
Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine
Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria
York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist
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