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Hannah Lucinda Smith on Turkey, Russia and Europe's hinterlands
Jun 23, 2026
45m 19s
Doruk Erhan on the limits of Turkey's shift to autocracy
Jun 9, 2026
36m 10s
Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey
May 26, 2026
33m 59s
Brett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms
May 12, 2026
39m 56s
Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan
Apr 28, 2026
48m 57s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() Hannah Lucinda Smith on Turkey, Russia and Europe's hinterlands | Hannah Lucinda Smith on “Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers” (Profile Books). The book is based on vivid reporting from Eastern Europe, the East Mediterranean and the Caucasus, as places like Kosovo, Bosnia, Karabakh, Transnistria and Cyprus become geopolitical hotspots with ambitious revisionist powers like Russia and Turkey looking to secure a greater share of the pie. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by Bloomsbury Academic, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 45m 19s | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Doruk Erhan on the limits of Turkey's shift to autocracy✨ | Turkey politicsautocracy+4 | Doruk Erhan | Yale Law SchoolMax Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law+2 | — | Turkeyautocracy+7 | — | 36m 10s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() Jennifer Hattam on writing the Lonely Planet guide to Turkey✨ | traveljournalism+4 | Jennifer Hattam | Lonely Planet | TurkeyIstanbul | Lonely PlanetTurkey travel guide+4 | Bloomsbury Academic35% discount | 33m 59s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Brett Wilson on the myth and reality of modern Turkey's religious reforms✨ | religious reformssecularism+4 | Brett Wilson | Central European UniversityNew Perspectives on Turkey+1 | TurkeyTurkish Republic | Turkeyreligious reforms+6 | Bloomsbury Academic35% discount | 39m 56s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan✨ | TurkeyIstanbul+4 | Suzy Hansen | Farrar, Straus and GirouxFrom Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan | IstanbulKaragumruk+2 | TurkeyIstanbul+5 | — | 48m 57s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Faisal Devji on the crisis of 'global Islam' in Turkey and elsewhere✨ | global Islampolitical Islam+4 | Faisal Devji | Balliol CollegeYale University Press+1 | Turkey | global Islampolitical Islam+5 | — | 34m 22s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Ryan Gingeras on organised crime in Turkey's modern history✨ | organized crimeTurkey+4 | Ryan Gingeras | Naval Postgraduate SchoolSimon & Schuster+3 | TurkeyIstanbul | organized crimeTurkey+5 | — | 38m 40s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire✨ | World War IOttoman Empire+4 | Mustafa Aksakal | Georgetown UniversityPrinceton University Press+2 | — | Mustafa AksakalOttoman Empire+5 | — | 38m 44s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Michelle Lynn Kahn on Turkish migration to Germany✨ | Turkish migrationGerman history+3 | Michelle Lynn Kahn | University of RichmondForeign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration and Turkish-German History | GermanyTurkey | Turkish migrationGermany+4 | — | 30m 01s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Murat Yıldız on the Ottoman world of sports, modernisation and minorities✨ | Ottoman sports culturemodernisation+4 | Murat Yıldız | Skidmore CollegeUniversity of Texas Press+2 | — | Ottoman Empiresports history+5 | — | 42m 19s | |
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| 2/3/26 | ![]() Berin Gür on the conquest of Istanbul in the Islamist-nationalist imagination✨ | Ottoman conquesthistorical memory+5 | Berin Gür | TED UniversityThe Conquest of Istanbul and the Manipulation of Architecture: The Islamist-Nationalist Rhetoric of Conquest and Melancholy | TurkeyIstanbul+1 | IstanbulOttoman conquest+5 | — | 30m 15s | |
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Adnan Khan on the human toll of Turkey's importing of Europe's waste✨ | plastic wastemigrant labor+4 | Adnan Khan | Middle East Research and Information ProjectA Deadly Trade - Refugee Labor in Turkey and Europe’s Plastic Waste+1 | TurkeyEurope+1 | Turkeyplastic waste+5 | — | 37m 41s | |
| 1/6/26 | ![]() Burcu Karahan on sexual freedom and women in late Ottoman fiction✨ | sexual freedomwomen in literature+4 | Burcu Karahan | Stanford UniversityOne Thousand and One Kisses: The Most Joyous and Flirtatious Stories | — | sexual freedomwomen+5 | — | 32m 19s | |
| 12/22/25 | ![]() Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue✨ | Kurdish issueTurkey+4 | Mehmet Gurses | University of Central FloridaCurrent History+1 | — | Kurdish issueTurkey+5 | — | 35m 46s | |
| 12/9/25 | ![]() Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party | Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (Cambridge University Press) Whether intended as criticism or praise, today’s AKP government is often placed in the lineage of the Democrat Party and Adnan Menderes, prime minister for 10 years before being overthrown in a military coup in 1960. However, as the book shows, ”the line from the Democrat Party to the present day is neither as straight nor as flattering as Erdogan would have it be”. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 41m 44s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | ![]() Seçil Daǧtaș on religious difference in Turkey's Hatay | Seçil Daǧtaș, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Waterloo, on “Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Southern Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press) The book is an ethnographic study of what Dagtas describes as “the social reproduction of religious differences” in Turkey’s uniquely diverse Hatay province. The conversation also addresses the impact of the deadly 2023 earthquakes that devastated the region, as well as over a decade of war in neighbouring Syria. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 38m 12s | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | ![]() Senem Aydin-Duzgit on foreign policy weaponisation in Turkish domestic politics | Senem Aydın-Düzgit, professor of international relations at Sabanci University and director of the Istanbul Policy Centre, on her article “Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics in Populist Competitive Authoritarianism: The Case of the May 2023 Elections in Turkey,” published in the journal South European Society and Politics. The conversation looks at how Erdogan uses foreign policy, defence policy and strongman diplomacy to burnish his reputation and reinforce public backing for the regime in Turkey. This strategy comes amid greater opportunity, as growing geopolitical uncertainty opens doors for ambitious players to reshape the international system based on raw power politics. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 37m 55s | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | ![]() Nora Fisher Onar on Turkish political history beyond binaries | Nora Fisher Onar, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at University of San Francisco, on “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond” (Cambridge University Press). The book aims to “challenge the received wisdom that a binary contest between ’Islam’ and ’secularism’ is the driving force in Turkey’s politics”. It voices the same scepticism about other binary divides often used to explain Turkey’s political history, including ”Turks vs. Kurds”, ”Sunnis vs. Alevis”, etc. Instead, Onar proposes an alternative theory of alliances between pluralist and non-pluralist forces that shift over time. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 31m 26s | ||||||
| 10/14/25 | ![]() Sean Mathews on Greece's regional comeback amid rivalry with Turkey | Sean Mathews, Athens-based journalist at Middle East Eye, on “The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East” (Hurst). The book examines Greece’s comeback as a regional player, arguing that this has largely been triggered by neighbouring Turkey’s growing assertiveness and revisionism. It suggests that this competition increasingly means we should view Greece as a Levantine or even Middle Eastern country, anchored in the East Mediterranean. The conversation also addresses the past, present and future of Turkey-Greece relations at a time when the geopolitical landscape is becoming increasingly uncertain. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 39m 22s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | ![]() Perin Gurel on the history of comparing Turkey and Iran in the West | Perin Gurel, associate professor of American Studies and associate professor of Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame, on “Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, America’s Concubine” (Cambridge University Press). The book looks at diplomatic history, popular culture and media portrayals to explore the cultural history of Turkey–Iran comparisons in the West, from Cold War-era modernisation theory to post-9/11 studies of “moderate Islam”. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 36m 43s | ||||||
| 9/16/25 | ![]() Gokhan Bacik on Turkey's citizenship-selling programme | Gokhan Bacik, professor in the department of politics and European studies at Palacky University, on his article “Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization,” recently published in the journal “Nationalism and Ethnic Politics”. The article examines the Turkish government’s Citizenship By Investment scheme, first introduced in 2016 and amended several times since then. It looks at the programme’s economic and social consequences, as well as the way it has been discussed – or avoided – in the national political debate. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 31m 36s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | ![]() Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil's dark vision of Istanbul's history | Amy Marie Spangler on the late great author Leyla Erbil’s What Remains. Amy co-translated the novel, along with Alev Ersan and Mark David Wyers, for an edition that will be published by Deep Vellum in October. First appearing in Turkish in 2011, two years before Erbil passed away, What Remains is a multilayered narrative that sweeps the reader from the Byzantine Empire to 20th century Turkey. It is also a dark elegy to the Istanbul of eras past and all that has been lost in its transformation. Amy is the co-founder of the AnatoliaLit literary agency, so our conversation also touches on broader trends in Turkey’s contemporary literary marketplace and the growing role of AI. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 27m 37s | ||||||
| 8/19/25 | ![]() Özgür Özkan on the 'dangerous illusion' of Turkey's PKK peace bid | Özgür Özkan, visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the domestic and regional implications of Turkey’s push for the Kurdish militant group’s dissolution. The conversation digs into issues raised by his recent article “Turkey’s Dangerous Illusion of Peace with the PKK”. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 34m 24s | ||||||
| 8/5/25 | ![]() Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey | Christopher Dole, professor of anthropology at Amherst College, on “Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey” (Stanford University Press). The book is an account of the psychiatric response to the August 1999 Marmara Earthquake, which killed over 20,000 people and left hundreds of thousands injured or displaced. It also examines the legacy of the earthquake in the communities and lives of its survivors and among the Turkish mental health professionals who responded to it. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 39m 12s | ||||||
| 7/22/25 | ![]() Mustafa Kutlay on Turkey's middle power dilemmas | Mustafa Kutlay, senior lecturer in comparative politics at City St George’s University of London, discusses his recent Foreign Affairs article “Turkey’s Middle-Power Dilemma”. Turkey is widely cited as one of the increasingly influential players in the emerging world order, with greater appetite and greater capacity to play a bigger role both in its region and elsewhere. Mustafa’s article focuses on the successes and failures of the Turkish government’s bid to carve out that greater role in the name of “strategic autonomy”. It also underlines the risks posed by this new world of increasingly ambitious, competitive powers clashing and cooperating with each other. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/ | 34m 25s | ||||||
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