The year is 1950 and Turkey has elected a brand new government in its first approximately fair and approximately free elections. So, the question is: what did they do exactly and were the seeds of this government eventual downfall sown in the very earliest acts they took? Come explore these questions and more with Jamie and Sinan, who are on their own on this one, having a nice time.

If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Ataturk cult of personality which still baffles many minds to this day, then check out our Patreon.

Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis

A preview of our bonus episode on the escapades of the Turkish Brigade in Korea and a particular focus on the anecdotes of our host's granddad who bizarrely was one of the Turkish rural soldiers who had the distinction of going off to Korea to facilitate Turkey's entry into NATO.

If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis

Special Guest Alasdair- @Ballistari

It's a slightly hungover episode, as we set the scene the for the 50s in Turkey, recap some of how we got here and we look at the innovative ways that Turkey tried to get closer to NATO. What they do might surprise you! It probably wont, but it's important for us to see what the price of being close to the western bloc may have been for Turkey who were really afraid of the Soviet Union. Also we'll be giving some background on our new main characters in government Celal Bayar and Adnan Menderes, who will have a big hand in the new Democrat Party government that will hold power throughout the decade ahead.

If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Korean War and Turkey's involvement in it including Sinan's granddad, then check out our Patreon.

Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis

Special Guest Alasdair- @Ballistari

A preview of our bonus episode on a defamation trial that escalated into an alleged attempted coup that then very transparently became a show trial. We've got fascists, poets, torture, the looming shadow of Stalin and at least one questionable haircut.

If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis

Special Guest Connor - @connoramulhern

This week we decide to take a look at the immediate post-war situation in Turkey, a country that wasn't a belligerent in World War 2, but nonetheless managed to get access to all that precious Marshall Plan money. How did this happen? Were there conditions? Was Turkey's first actual multiparty general election rigged? All this and more answered as we chat with our guest Connor.

If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Racism-Turanism Trials and the unsurprising conclusion of them, then check out our Patreon.

Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis

Special Guest Connor - @connoramulhern

A preview of our bonus episode on the seemingly doomed senatorial run of Dr Mehmet Oz, possibly one of the most prominent members of the Turkish diaspora and how he's really, really messing things up in a spectacular way.

If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - currently between twitter accounts because he can't stop himself

Ben - @Patricipacion

It's war! But Turkey is still recovering from such a long period of turmoil, so what is the state going to do? Joining the war would invite the devastation that Ismet Inonu is so desperate to avoid, staying neutral may not be allowed by the great powers of the war. So come along to see how Turkey walked the tightrope of World War 2, how tense it is to be a geographically important neutral country and how different sections of Turkey's state had their own preference for both the outcome of the war and who they would rather join at various points.

If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on Dr Oz's bizarre and insanely bad run for the US Senate, then check out our Patreon.

Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd

Ben - @Patricipacion

A preview of our bonus episode on the mysterious and meme worthy engineering company Dahir Insaat, founded by a Russian man who's sick of everyone being mean about his ideas online, but also dreams of a post-apocalypse where Istanbul and Russia are the last refuges of human life? Very cool, very normal.

If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd

Ben - @Patricipacion

Neutrality. What is it good for? Well it turns out it can be good for a lot of things as our case study today shows. We'll be heading to the inconspicuous province of Hatay, which it turns out was a major sore point for the Turkish nationalists in the early Republic and is now a sore point for Syrian nationalists. The poor place just can't win. We re-establish the background of the world situation and how Ismet Inonu took advantage of a weakened France who were willing to engage in another front in appeasement in order to ensure Turkey's neutrality in World War 2. Was Hatay really a big enough deal to change that? Well, that's for us to find out and France to never know.

If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on what I suspect is an elaborate money laundering scheme that involves 3D modelling software, then check out our Patreon.

Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd

Ben - @Patricipacion

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away (Turkish). That's right we're talking about Turkish Star Wars and why it is in fact, one of the greatest films of all time. Really there's nothing else for me to add, go listen to this preview and be inspired by a film that literally defied god.

If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome

Our Cast:

Sinan - @TheSinanKose

Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd

Ben - @Patricipacion