Caner Yelbaşı, researcher in history at Mardin Artuklu University, on “The Circassians in Turkey: War, Violence and Nationalism from the Ottomans to Atatürk” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury). The book describes the course of Circassians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey after they were driven from their north Caucasus homeland by the Russian Empire in the 19th century. ... Show More
Feb 17
Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities
Murat Yıldız, associate professor of history at Skidmore College, on “The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul” (University of Texas Press) Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discoun ... Show More
42m 19s
Feb 2024
Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher, "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments" (Leiden UP, 2023)
The Republic of Turkey was founded a hundred years ago on 29 October 1923. Turkey holds a unique position between Europe and the Middle East. It continues to captivate international attention, evoking hopes and fears in the hearts and minds of contemporary observers. As a critica ... Show More
57m 26s
Feb 2024
Atatürk: Fall of the Ottoman Empire
<p>On the 19th of May, 1919, an Ottoman general stepped ashore at the Black Sea port city of Samsun. This marked the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence, and ultimately the end of the Ottoman Empire. The man's name was Mustafa Kemal, the soldier, statesman and reformer w ... Show More
33m 56s
May 2023
La danza del cóndor y el águila: Etnografías y narrativas del 'despertar muisca'
En la vida, muchas veces adoptamos filosofías, expresiones e incluso comportamientos que no obedecen a nuestros contextos inmediatos; tal vez por mayor empatía con unas u otras, lo cual nos lleva a construir nuestras propias identidades. Otras veces nos quedamos con nuestros pasa ... Show More
59m 48s
Feb 2024
Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed in war so far & reflections on reporting on the occupied territories
Day 730. Today, Dom Nicholls is joined by Francis Farrell, a journalist with the Kyiv Independent, who talks us through a series of press conferences yesterday in the Ukrainian capital as someone who was in the room.Plus David Knowles chats with another reporter from The Kyiv Ind ... Show More
1h 8m
Oct 2025
Essentials: How Your Brain Functions & Interprets the World | Dr. David Berson
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. David Berson, PhD, a professor of neuroscience at Brown University and an expert on the visual system and circadian biology. We explore how the brain processes visual information, from photons entering the eye to conscious ... Show More
40m 39s
Oct 2023
Video: Tommy Lee | Club Random with Bill Maher
Tommy Lee’s wild stories about staying sober as a rock star, the senses that evoke memories, the psychology of being a drummer, the insanity of Motley Crue not being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the unbelievable pounding the human body can take, Tommy’s full body scan, the ... Show More
1h 42m