Turkey Book Talk

Esra Gürakar on "Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey" (Palgrave Macmillan), her book about how the AKP government abandoned early economic reforms in favor of cronyism and favoritism. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers, exclusive to Turkey Book Talk listeners. Support the podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Celia Jocelyn Kerslake, Michelle Zimmer, Jan-Markus Vömel, Steve Bryant, Aaron Ataman and Andrew MacDowall.

Birol Başkan, an Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, joins to discuss "Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East" (Palgrave Macmillan). Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers, exclusive to Turkey Book Talk listeners. Support the podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Celia Jocelyn Kerslake, Michelle Zimmer, Jan-Markus Vömel, Steve Bryant and Aaron Ataman.

International Crisis Group's Turkey director, Nigar Göksel, discusses their recent report “Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin.” The report examines the 33-year conflict through ground-level research in Nusaybin, a small Kurdish-majority town particularly badly hit by violence since the collapse of the peace process in summer 2015. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers. Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Celia Jocelyn Kerslake, Michelle Zimmer, Jan-Markus Vömel, Steve Bryant and Aaron Ataman.

Ryan Gingeras returns to discuss his report "Deep State of Crisis: Re-Assessing Risks to the Turkish State," written for the Bipartisan Policy Center. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers via http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Celia Jocelyn Kerslake, Michelle Zimmer, Jan-Markus Vömel, Steve Bryant and Aaron Ataman.  

Cemil Aydin, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on "The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History" (Harvard University Press). Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers via http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. Support the Turkey Book Talk podcast by making a donation via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Celia Jocelyn Kerslake, Michelle Zimmer, Steve Bryant and Aaron Ataman.

Queen Mary University fellow Mehmet Kurt on "Kurdish Hizbullah in Turkey: Islamism, Violence and the State" (Pluto Press). Support the podcast and get a 33% discount plus free delivery by purchasing any of five books from Hurst Publishers via http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. Or make a donation to the Turkey Book Talk podcast via Patreon. Many thanks to current supporters Özlem Beyarslan, Steve Bryant, Celia Jocelyn Kerslake and Aaron Ataman. 

Kapka Kassabova discusses "Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe" (Granta), on the troubled past and present of the border between Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers via http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. 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.

New York Times journalist Basharat Peer on “A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen,” exploring the parallels between Erdoğan’s Turkey and Modi’s India. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on any of five books from Hurst Publishers via http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. 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.

Cuma Çiçek joins to discuss his book "The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris). Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on four books from Hurst Publishers at http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. 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.

Ulaş Tol joins to discuss his report "Urban Alevism and Young Alevis’ Search for Identity," written for the PODEM think tank. Get a 33% discount plus free delivery on four books from Hurst Publishers at http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. 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.

Benjamin Fortna discusses "The Circassian: A Life of Eşref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent" (Hurst) on the life of an Ottoman secret service operative who rebelled against the resistance forces during the war of independence. Get a 33% discount on this and other Hurst titles at http://hurstpublishers.bigcartel.com/. 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.

Hale Yılmaz discusses her book “Becoming Turkish: Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey, 1923-1945” (Syracuse) and social engineering in Turkey past and present. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.