All Episodes

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