Sep 1

Benjamin Fortna on change and continuity in Ottoman and Turkish history

Benjamin Fortna, professor of history at the University of Arizona, on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Publishing). Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ot ... Show More

41m 40s

Aug 18

Işılay Gürsu on archaeology and public perceptions in Turkey

Işılay Gürsu on “Public Dialogues in Archaeology: New Methodologies from Turkey” (Bloomsbury Academic). The book explores the Turkish public's perception and understanding of the country's rich archaeological heritage. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Suppo ... Show More

35m 14s

Aug 4

Onur İnal on the rise of late Ottoman İzmir

Onur İnal on “Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir” (Cambridge University Press). The book shows how the cosmopolitan coastal city of Izmir flourished in the 19th century to become a major link between the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the res ... Show More

26m 34s

Mar 2017

German-Turkish Spat: a Storm in a Tea Cup?

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's senior fellows, Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller on the German-Turkish diplomatic spat, the forthcoming polls and the bigger picture of EU-Turkey relations.The podcast was recorded on 9 March 2017.Bookshelf:Atul Gawande, Being Mor ... Show More

25m 12s

Mar 2021

Oya Dursun-Özkanca, "Turkey–West Relations: The Politics of Intra-alliance Opposition" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

How do we make sense of Turkey’s recent turn against the West – after decades of Turkish cooperation and desire to be integrated into the European and wider Western community in terms of foreign policy? Dr. Oya Dursun-Özkanca’s new book Turkey-West Relations: The Politics of Intr ... Show More

59m 35s

Dec 2022

Resisting Turkish Imperialism in Rojava ft Debbie Bookchin

We talk with Debbie Bookchin and researcher Meghan Bodette about the revolution in northern Syria, the Kurdish freedom movement, and how to prevent Turkey from carrying out their plans to wipe it out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

52m 19s

Aug 2025

Erdogan Considers the Kurdish Question: The PKK ceasefire and the Kurdish future in Turkey

This week on The New Arab Voice, we look at the recent ceasefire agreement between the PKK and the Turkish state. The Kurdistan’s Worker’s Party (PKK) and the Turkish state have been in a state of conflict since 1984. The conflict has killed over 35,000 people and achieved little ... Show More

36m 53s

Aug 2024

What Keeps Tyrants in Power? with Marcel Dirsus

Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. As Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Dirsus mainly works on regime instability, political violence and German foreign policy. His new boo ... Show More

33m 5s

Feb 2021

Turkey: Adnan Menderes, populism, and history

Turkey and 50s Prime Minister Menderes, Erdogan today, and how history is used for political power. Matthew Sweet is joined by Jeremy Seal, Ece Temelkuran, Michael Talbot & Nilay Ozlu.Before his execution in 1961, the Turkish prime minister Adnan Menderes saw Turkey admitted to N ... Show More

45m 4s

Jul 2020

Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Part I

In this episode we talk about what's happening with Syrian refugees in Turkey. This is part of a two-part series. Next week we will talk about European policies towards Turkey that make Europe complicit in the situation. Thank you to Kit Roberts for suggesting this topic. For tra ... Show More

7m 25s

Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish ques...