Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay

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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

Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination

Berin Gür on “The Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-Nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy” (Routledge). The book explores how the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul is remembered in Turkey's mainstream official narrative and how architect ...  Show more

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