Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad

Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroa...

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Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany

Michelle Lynn Kahn on “Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish-German History” (Cambridge University Press). Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Blo ...  Show more

Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities

Murat Yıldız, associate professor of history at Skidmore College, on “The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul” (University of Texas Press) Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discoun ...  Show more

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