Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire

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Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire

Mustafa Aksakal, associate professor of history at Georgetown University, on “The War that Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire” (Princeton University Press) Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on al ...  Show more

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

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