Turkey Book Talk

Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk

Ekin Oklap on translating Orhan Pamuk into English and the release of "The Red-Haired Woman" (Faber), the second novel she has worked on with Pamuk. 

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Cenk Özbay on male prostitution in Istanbul and LGBT rights in Turkey

Cenk Özbay, associate professor at Sabancı University, on his book “Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City” (IB Tauris) and the troubled state of LGBT rights activism in the country today.

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Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey

Journalist Suzy Hansen on "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), on the delusions of US exceptionalism and reporting from Turkey for 10 years.

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Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire

Professor Douglas Howard on "A History of the Ottoman Empire” (Cambridge University Press), his new single-volume history covering the empire from its 13th century origins to its protracted, violent dissolution.

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Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege

Max Hoffman discusses the report "Trends in Turkish Civil Society," a joint publication by the Center for American Progress, the Istanbul Policy Center, and the Italian think tank IAI.

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Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey

Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute discusses his book "The New Sultan: Erdoğan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey" (IB Tauris).

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Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey

Esra Gürakar on "Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan), her book about how the AKP government abandoned early economic reforms in favor of cronyism and favoritism.

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Birol Başkan on Turkey, Qatar and the geopolitics of the Middle East

Birol Başkan, an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, joins to discuss "Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East" (Palgrave Macmillan).

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Nigar Göksel on Turkey's PKK conflict through the case of Nusaybin

International Crisis Group's Turkey director, Nigar Göksel, discusses their recent report “Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin.”

The report examines the 33-year conflict through ground-level research in Nusaybin, a small Kurdish-majority town particularly badly hit by violence since the collapse of the peace process in summer 2015.

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Ryan Gingeras on Turkey's 'deep state of crisis'

Ryan Gingeras returns to discuss his report "Deep State of Crisis: Re-Assessing Risks to the Turkish State," written for the Bipartisan Policy Center.

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Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world

Cemil Aydin, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on "The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History" (Harvard University Press).

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Mehmet Kurt on Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, violence and the state

Queen Mary University fellow Mehmet Kurt on "Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State" (Pluto Press).

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Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria

Kapka Kassabova discusses "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe" (Granta), on the troubled past and present of the border between Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria.

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Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism

New York Times journalist Basharat Peer on “A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen,” exploring the parallels between Erdoğan’s Turkey and Modi’s India.

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Cuma Çiçek on the Kurds of Turkey: National, religious and economic identities

Cuma Çiçek joins to discuss his book "The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris).

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Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis

Ulaş Tol joins to discuss his report "Urban Alevism and Young Alevis’ Search for Identity," written for the PODEM think tank.

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Benjamin Fortna on Eşref Kuşçubaşı, late Ottoman insurgent and special agent

Benjamin Fortna discusses "The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent" (Hurst) on the life of an Ottoman secret service operative who rebelled against the resistance forces during the war of independence.

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Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey

Hale Yılmaz discusses her book “Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945” (Syracuse) and social engineering in Turkey past and present.

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Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the 'New Turkey' and its discontents

Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan chat about their book "The New Turkey and its Discontents" (Hurst), a good primer on how Turkey got to where it is today.

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Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey

Editors Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu join to discuss "The Making of Neoliberal Turkey," a collection of essays exploring the political, cultural, and social effects of economic policies implemented in Turkey since 1980.

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