Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Ozan Ozavci discuss the Armenian mission to Lausanne in 1922-3, the (performative) support they received from the Allied Powers and the Turkish response to plans for an autonomous Armenian Home.

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Ellinor Morack explains to Jonathan Conlin how she unpicked the tangled process of expropriation and re-allocation by which early Republican Turkey sought to create a "national economy".

Ozan Ozavci invites İlker Aytürk to develop his critical response to Erik-Jan Zürcher's arguments in last month's TLP podcast.

Jonathan Conlin talks to Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal about Britain's short-lived post-WWI empire in the eastern Mediterranean.

Erik-Jan Zürcher and Ozan Ozavci consider the two faces of Turkish historiography, as well as the tendency of Turkey's political culture to relapse into authoritarianism after each liberal democratic opening.

Erik-Jan Zürcher talks to Ozan Ozavci about the treaties of Sèvres, Lausanne and their legacy in different official histories of Turkey.

Ozan Ozavci talks to Christine Philliou about her new book "Turkey: A Past Against History" and the many lives of muhalefet (opposition) from the late Ottoman Empire to today.

Jay Winter discusses his forthcoming landmark study of Lausanne with Jonathan Conlin.

Ümit Kurt explains to Jonathan Conlin how an innocent question asked in his local cafe launched him on a journey into Gaziantep's past, uncovering the genocidal violence that gave birth to a new Muslim bourgeoisie.

Ryan Gingeras speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his 2019 book Eternal Dawn and the Kemalist mythos in Turkey.