All Episodes

Brett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms

Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan

Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere

Ryan Gingeras on organised crime in Turkey's modern history

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

Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany

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

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

Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste

Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction

Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party

Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay

Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics

Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries

Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey

Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West

Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme

Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history

Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid

Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey

Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas

Bilge Yabancı on Turkey's civil society under siege

Erik-Jan Zürcher on imperial nostalgia in Turkey and Britain

Talin Suciyan on Armenians in Turkey after World War Two

David Tonge on the enduring hold of Islamic orders in Turkey

Richard Calis on Martin Crusius and the discovery of Ottoman Greece

Fiona Mullen on the Cyprus question amid growing geopolitical uncertainty

Bilge Yesil on Turkey's narrowing media landscape

Berk Esen on whether Turkey has shifted from authoritarianism to autocracy

Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Selim Koru on Turkey's role in the emerging anti-liberal world order

Claudia Liebelt on cosmetic surgery and perceptions of beauty in Turkey

Brett Wilson on Yakup Kadri's controversial late Ottoman novel 'Nur Baba'

Omar Kadkoy on the future of Syrian migrants in Turkey

Zozan Pehlivan on climatic shifts behind late Ottoman conflicts

Samuel Hirst on a century of Ankara-Moscow cooperation

Ralph Hubbell on the work of Turkish literary giant Oğuz Atay

Jennifer Hattam on Istanbul's shifting cultural landscape

Salim Çevik on Turkey's Middle East reset

Orçun Selçuk on populist polarisation in Turkey and Latin America

Ezgi Başaran on the new spirit of Islamism

Samim Akgönül on 100 years of Turkish-Greek relations

Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century

Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran

Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past

Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents

Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years

Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul

Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire

Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism

Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence

Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results

Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes

Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain

İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state

Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls

Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia

Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul

İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture

Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy

Sinem Adar on Turkey’s dilemmas amid the Israel-Gaza war

Cihan Dizdaroğlu on Turkey-Greece ties through turbulence and rapprochement

Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of Turkey’s legacy at 100 years

Nilay Özok-Gündoğan on political authority in Ottoman Kurdistan

Onur İşçi on post-war Turkey-Soviet relations and Ankara’s ties with Russia today

Spyros Sofos on Turkey’s many nationalisms

Pat Yale on travelling around Turkey in the footsteps of Gertrude Bell

Anthony Bigio on Gad Franco, Sephardi Turkish patriot in times of turmoil

James Meyer on the life and times of Nazim Hikmet and his generation

Şebnem Gümüşcü on the past and future of Islamism in Turkey

Constanze Letsch on gentrification and displacement in Istanbul

Ci Demi on his surreal, unsettling photographs of Istanbul

Derin Koçer on how Erdogan won and why Turkey’s opposition failed

Demet Aslı Çaltekin on militarism and conscientious objection in Turkey

Aron Aji on the unsettling work of Turkish novelist Ferit Edgü

Tezcan Gümüş on enduring authoritarianism in Turkey’s democratic history

Paul Levin on Turks and Kurds in Sweden, geopolitics and Nato

Maureen Freely on the turbulent life and work of Turkish author Tezer Özlü

Doğan Gürpınar on the intellectual order of populist Islamism in Turkey

Nesi Altaras on Turkish Jews applying for Spanish and Portuguese citizenship

Selim Koru on Turkey’s earthquakes and their political aftershocks

Çağdaş Üngör on what Turkey and China want from Sino-Turkish relations

Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire

Greg Goalwin on religious nationalism and identity in Turkey and Ireland

Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Turkey and abroad

Ryan Gingeras on the last days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu

Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad

Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey

Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans

Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey

Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset

Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey

Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey

Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey

Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question

Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan

Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature

Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey

Reuben Silverman on modern Turkey’s social, political and geographic margins

Sarah-Neel Smith on art and development in mid-20th century Turkey

Suat Kınıklıoğlu on Eurasianism in Turkey

Birol Başkan on Islamism and Turkish foreign policy

Andrea Lemieux on the pleasures of Turkish wine

Noah Amir Arjomand on fixers and journalism in Turkey and Syria

York Norman on Celal Nuri, Young Turk moderniser and Muslim nationalist

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on the occupation of Istanbul through British eyes

Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish question and the ECHR

Hakan Özoğlu on Mark Bristol and the founding of US-Turkey ties in the 20th century

Çiğdem Oğuz on moral panic and westernisation in the late Ottoman era and today

Murat Siviloğlu on the emergence of public opinion in the late Ottoman Empire

Ramazan Aras on the past and present of the Turkey-Syria border

Maureen Freely on rediscovering leftist Turkish novelist Suat Derviş

Marc David Baer on the Ottomans as khans, caesars and caliphs

Federico Donelli on Turkey‘s push into Africa

Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up

Giancarlo Casale on Osman of Timişoara, Ottoman captive in 17th century Europe

Soner Çağaptay on the crises facing Turkey’s Erdoğan

Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West

Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today

Nicholas Danforth on memory and modernity in contemporary Turkey

Buke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy

Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today

Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul

Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent

Malte Fuhrmann on cosmopolitan life in port cities of the late Ottoman era

Noel Malcolm on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Western political thought

Evren Savcı on Turkey's LGBT movement, from flourishing to crackdown

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey's cultural, political and religious footprint in the Balkans

Jenny White on the deep scars of political violence in Turkey's 1970s

Jeremy Seal on Adnan Menderes and the long shadow of Turkey's 1960 coup

Taner Doğan on ideology and charisma in Erdoğan's communication strategy

Murat Erdoğan on Syrian migrants' future in Turkey

Chiara Maritato on women in Turkey's state religious agency

Mostafa Minawi on the Ottoman Empire's scramble for Africa

Ömer Taşpınar on what the West gets wrong about the Middle East and Turkey

Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity

Mustafa Menshawy on the Muslim Brotherhood in exile in Turkey

Elizabeth Rodini on the lives of Bellini's portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II

Jan-Markus Vomel on the past and future of political Islam in Turkey

Louis Fishman on Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era

Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey's religious nationalist status quo

Ahmet Kuru on Islam, authoritarianism and underdevelopment

Zeynep Çelik on archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Alan Mikhail on Selim I, the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern world

Sinem Adar on the militarisation of Turkey's foreign policy

Richard Antaramian on Ottoman modernisation and the Armenian community

Berk Esen on the political economy behind Turkey's democratic distress

Magdalena Zaborowska on James Baldwin's Turkish decade

Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey's Kurdish question

Oya Dursun-Özkanca on Turkey's foreign policy after Covid-19

Ünver Rüstem on the Baroque in Istanbul and Ottoman rise and decline

Michael Wuthrich on main opposition mayors and populism in Turkey

Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı on Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko's Istanbul years, 1919-21

Ayfer Karakaya-Stump on Alevis in today's Turkey and in 15th century Anatolia

Ryan Gingeras on the paradoxes of Turkey in the age of Atatürk

Omar Kadkoy on Syrian refugees, the EU deal and migrants in Turkey

Onur İşçi on Turkey-Russia ties during the Second World War and today

Ayse Zarakol on stigma and status anxiety in Turkey’s ties to the West

Erkan Saka on social media, trolling and fake news in Turkey

Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present

Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq

Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism

Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire

Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi

Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası

Soner Çağaptay on Syria and Erdoğan's Middle East quandary

Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi

Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey

Nur Deriş on the epic life and times of Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel

Emre Erşen on Turkey's pivot to Eurasia

Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey

Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish

Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey

Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios

Elif Mahir Metinsoy on Ottoman women during World War I

Selim Deringil on the Ottoman twilight in the Arab lands

Toygar Sinan Baykan on populism and organisation in the AKP

Reuben Silverman on explorations in Turkey’s 'ever-present past'

Patrick Keddie on football and the story of modern Turkey

Şevket Pamuk on the economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey since 1820

Ceren Lord on religious politics in Turkey

Doğuş Şimşek and Yusuf Sayman on African migrants in Istanbul

Selda Tuncer on women and public space in Ankara, 1950 to 1980

Selim Koru on Turkey, Russia and the power of political resentment

Maureen Freely on the life and work of Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Caroline Eden on a culinary journey along the Black Sea coast

Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One

Lora Sarı on the life, photography and writing of Ara Guler

Alev Scott on 'Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire'

Avedis Hadjian on the 'hidden Armenians' of Anatolia

Begum Adalet on the Cold War origins of Turkey-US ties

Doğu Eroğlu on investigating ISIS networks in Turkey

Sinan Yıldırmaz on urban migration and the peasantry in Turkish politics

Nazlı Alimen on faith, headscarves and conservative fashion in Turkey

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on the rising profile of Turkey's religious affairs directorate

Halil Karaveli on a history of authoritarianism in modern Turkey

Dimitar Bechev on Turkey-Russia relations, past and present

Amy Spangler on the writing of Sevgi Soysal and running a literary agency in Istanbul

Michael Provence on the last Ottoman generation and the making of the Middle East

Jonathan Varjabedian on family letters from Anatolia to America, 1912 to 1919

Cengiz Erişen on emotions and election campaigns in Turkey

Erin Banco on the plundering of Iraqi Kurdistan's oil wealth

John McManus on football culture and society in Turkey

Volkan Yılmaz on the politics of healthcare and welfare in Turkey

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey and Europe beyond hypocrisy

Diana Darke on Abu Chaker and the modern history of Syria

Max Hoffman on Turkey's latest nationalist wave

Ceren Baysan on voters, parties and polarization in Turkey

Mehmet Kentel on the world of Ottoman caricaturist Yusuf Franko

Karabekir Akkoyunlu on the 'exit from democracy' in Turkey and beyond

Edhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality

Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State

Ezgi Başaran on ‘frontline Turkey,’ Gülenists and the Kurdish peace process

Raja Shehadeh on 'travels with his Ottoman uncle,' Palestine and the First World War

Lora Sarı on the Istanbul-based Armenian publisher Aras

Özlem Madi-Şişman on Muslims, money and democracy in Turkey

Fikret Adaman on Erdoğan, the environment and economic policy in Turkey

Alexander Clarkson on Turks and Kurds in Germany

Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk

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

Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey

Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire

Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege

Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey

Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey

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

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

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

Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world

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

Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria

Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism

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

Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis

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

Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey

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

Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey

Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East

Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey

Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey

George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire

Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'

Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’

Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy

Ece Temelkuran on 'Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy'

Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present