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Turkish Studies
Interviews with authors about new books in Turkish studies.
March 9, 2026
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence
Animals, Justice, and the Politics of Violence: Shared Struggles in Turkey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) by Dr. Sezai Ozan Zeybek explores the intricate …
February 20, 2026
Earthmoving
Extractivism—exploiting the earth for resources—has long driven racial capitalism and colonialism. And yet, how does extractivism operate in a world w…
January 15, 2026
The Indian Caliphate
In 1924, the Republic of Turkey voted to abolish the Ottoman caliphate, ending a 400-year-long claim by the Ottomans that they were the leaders of the…
January 4, 2026
On the Semicivilized
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo (Duke University Press, 2025) by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis o…
December 3, 2025
The Jews of Edirne
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne P…
October 17, 2025
Empire of Manners
It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civili…
October 10, 2025
Mavericks
As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely ba…
September 25, 2025
The Business of Transition
The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule (Stanford UP, 2024) examines how the cosmopolitan bourge…
September 23, 2025
New Turkey and the Far Right
Turkey is among a league of revisionist powers who are challenging the world order. Erdogan and his Islamist movement have aimed to create the “New Tu…
August 12, 2025
Microhistories in Armenian Studies
The articles appearing in this volume were presented at a conference entitled “Microhistories in Armenian Studies” organized by the Armenian Studies P…
July 27, 2025
Ottoman Baroque
In Istanbul, there is a mosque on every hill. Cruising along the Bosphorus, either for pleasure, or like the majority of Istanbul’s denizens, for tran…
June 28, 2025
Outcasting Armenians
The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the …
June 11, 2025
Foreign in Two Homelands
What happens when migrants are rejected by the host society that first invited them? How do they return to a homeland that considers them outsiders? F…
June 4, 2025
Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War
This reader brings to light newly discovered archival material compiled by the Soviet Consulate in Istanbul. The book reveals the lives and experience…
May 19, 2025
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece
In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled an exceptionally rich record of Greek life under Ottoman rule. …
May 3, 2025
Filming in European Cities
Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location (Cornell University Press, 2025) explores the effort behind creating screen production locations. Dr…
March 31, 2025
Gifts in the Age of Empire
When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi’ism, it prompted the more established Ottoma…
March 30, 2025
Ottoman Jewry
Those of us who have some background in Jewish history are taught that the Ottoman Empire encouraged Jews, particularly those of the Spanish and Portu…
February 26, 2025
Late Ottoman Gaza
Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant movement of its population. In contemporary publi…
February 19, 2025
Prohibition in Turkey
Historian Emine Ö. Evered’s Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (University of Texas Press, 2024) investigates the history of …