In the wake of international headlines on Sofagate between Turkey and the European Union, Turkish Coffee hosts discuss the image of Turkey and Turks, taking their cues from history, literature and the current political affairs.

In this podcast, Aygen Aytaç and Nazlan Ertan discuss the Turkish image, starting from an 11th-century letter from Byzantine Emperor Alexius Commenus to today^s Sofagate, from references to Turks in Shakespeare to the soft power of the Turkish TV series.

References:

Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe

Astraea Redux, John Dryden

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

Mozart and the Wolf Gang, Antony Burgess

Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Aziyadeh, Pierre Loti

Doğuştan Kadıncıl (Born Feminine), Refik Halit Karay