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Yigit Akin on the Ottoman home front during World War One

202

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

203

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

204

Avedis Hadjian on the 'hidden Armenians' of Anatolia

205

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

206

Doğu Eroğlu on investigating ISIS networks in Turkey

207

Sinan Yıldırmaz on urban migration and the peasantry in Turkish politics

208

Nazlı Alimen on faith, headscarves and conservative fashion in Turkey

209

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

210

Halil Karaveli on a history of authoritarianism in modern Turkey

211

Dimitar Bechev on Turkey-Russia relations, past and present

212

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

213

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

214

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

215

Cengiz Erişen on emotions and election campaigns in Turkey

216

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

217

John McManus on football culture and society in Turkey

218

Volkan Yılmaz on the politics of healthcare and welfare in Turkey

219

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on Turkey and Europe beyond hypocrisy

220

Diana Darke on Abu Chaker and the modern history of Syria

221

Max Hoffman on Turkey's latest nationalist wave

222

Ceren Baysan on voters, parties and polarization in Turkey

223

Mehmet Kentel on the world of Ottoman caricaturist Yusuf Franko

224

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

225

Edhem Eldem on Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II between fantasy and reality

226

Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State

227

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

228

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

229

Lora Sarı on the Istanbul-based Armenian publisher Aras

230

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

231

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

232

Alexander Clarkson on Turks and Kurds in Germany

233

Ekin Oklap on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating Orhan Pamuk

234

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

235

Suzy Hansen on viewing America from Turkey

236

Douglas Howard on a new history of the Ottoman Empire

237

Max Hoffman on Turkish civil society under siege

238

Soner Çağaptay on Erdoğan and the crisis of modern Turkey

239

Esra Gürakar on crony capitalism in Turkey

240

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

241

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

242

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

243

Cemil Aydin on the illusion of the Muslim world

244

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

245

Kapka Kassabova on the borderlands of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria

246

Basharat Peer on Turkey, India and the rise of populism

247

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

248

Ulaş Tol on Turkey's Alevis

249

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

250

Hale Yılmaz on social transformation in republican Turkey

251

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

252

Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey

253

Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East

254

Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey

255

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

256

George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

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

261

Bilge Yeşil on the Turkish media past and present