Turkey Book Talk

By William Armstrong

Conversations with journalists, academics and writers on Turkey and its region. New episode every two weeks.... more

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The podcast currently has 349 episodes available.

Turkey Book Talk episodes:

January 13, 2017 Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan on the ‘New Turkey’ and its discontents
Simon Waldman and Emre Çalışkan chat about their book "The New Turkey and its Discontents" (Hurst), a good primer on how Turkey got to where it is today.

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman.
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December 21, 2016 Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu on the making of neoliberal Turkey
Editors Cenk Özbay and Ayşecan Terzioğlu join to discuss "The Making of Neoliberal Turkey," a collection of essays exploring the political, cultural, and social effects of economic policies implemented in Turkey since 1980.
Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman.
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24min
December 09, 2016 Roger Hardy on empire and its legacy in the Middle East
Roger Hardy’s joins to talk about “The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East” (Hurst).
Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman.
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35min
November 25, 2016 Kaya Genç on rage and revolution in modern Turkey
Kaya Genç returns to the podcast. This time he joins to discuss his new book "Under the Shadow: Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey," which profiles young Turks from across the political spectrum.
Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman.
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24min
November 11, 2016 Burcu Şentürk on the politics of urban poverty and migration in Turkey
Burcu Şentürk chats about her book “Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities” (IB Tauris).
Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman.
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30min
October 28, 2016 George Junne on black eunuchs and slavery in the Ottoman Empire
George Junne discusses “The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan" (IB Tauris), exploring the key role that eunuchs played in the Ottoman state and the broader question of slavery in the empire.

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Andrew Cruickshank and Aaron Ataman.
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27min
October 12, 2016 Özge Samancı on 'Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey'
Özge Samancı talks about her bestselling graphic memoir “Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey” (Farrar Straux Giroux).

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Andrew Cruickshank and Aaron Ataman.
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16min
October 12, 2016 Özge Samancı on ‘Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey’
Özge Samancı talks about her bestselling graphic memoir “Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey” (Farrar Straux Giroux).

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Andrew Cruickshank and Aaron Ataman.
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16min
September 30, 2016 Ali Yaycıoğlu on the Ottoman Empire in the ‘age of revolutions’
Ali Yaycıoğlu joins to discuss "Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the
Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions" (Stanford University Press), examining the extraordinary upheavals in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 18th and 19th
centuries. In the conversation he talks about the long-term effects of the upheavals and what the period can tell us about contemporary Turkey’s turbulent
political landscape.

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation, small or large, via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Andrew Cruickshank and Aaron Ataman.
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32min
September 17, 2016 Michael Wuthrich on the history of elections in Turkey and the future of Turkish democracy
Michael Wuthrich chats about "National Elections in Turkey: People, Politics and the Party System" (Syracuse University Press), a rich and provocative book that overhauls much conventional wisdom about Turkish politics shared by right and left.

Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donationsmall or large via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan,Steve Bryant, Andrew Cruickshank and Aaron Ataman.

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