Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay

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Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction

Burcu Karahan on her translation of “One Thousand and One Kisses: The Most Joyous and Flirtatious Stories” (Translation Attached). The book brings together 65 stories blending humour and eroticism, published anonymously in 1923-24. The stories are a fascinating time capsule of a ...  Show more

Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Mehmet Gurses on his article “Turkey's Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, published in the Current History journal. The conversation places the PKK's emergence and transformations in a historical context over the past five decades, also weighing up shifts that may be triggered by its ...  Show more

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