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Eastern Mediterranean history: Coasts and coalitions 23 mai 2015

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The Economist (UK) no. 950

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Politics in the 16th-century Mediterranean and its relevance to the modern Balkans. (suite…)

History’s waiting room 2 mars 2015

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Review (UK) March 2, 2015, p. 20

Pankaj Mishra

The Time Regulation Institute is a brilliant comic novel from 1962 about life in a Turkey forced to adopt western ways. Pankaj Mishra salutes its author, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Orhan Pamuk has called Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-62) the greatest Turkish novelist of the 20th century. (suite…)

When ideologies tangle 19 janvier 2015

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Financial Times (Asia Ed) Monday, January 19, 2015, p. 8

Review by Borzou Daragahi

Once the roles were reversed. Four hundred years ago, as Christian Europe became engulfed in religious conflict, a stable, prosperous Muslim superpower looked on with interest. (suite…)

Imperial City 7 décembre 2014

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The New York Times (USA) Book Review, Sunday, December 7, 2014, p. BR 84

By Jason Goodwin

Every now and then, there’s a story that needs to be told. It may come in a film or a novel, but it often arrives as a history. These days, we need a history of Ukraine and one of Syria, and we also need Charles King to trace the making of modern Istanbul. (suite…)

Turkish Lobby 11 octobre 2014

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The National (UAE) Saturday, October 11, 2014, p. r12 & r13
The Review ~ Books

Matthew Price *

It’s an interesting idea: to tell the story of modern Turkey through the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, even if the realisation doesn’t quite live up to the promise, writes Matthew Price. (suite…)

Can the neoliberal state be truly democratic? 28 mai 2014

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The Jordan Times, Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Sally Bland

The rise to power of the AKP (Justice and Development Party), which had its origins in the Islamist movement, initially elicited much speculation about whether Islam is compatible with democracy. However, the more poignant question posed by « Turkey Reframed » is whether neoliberalism is compatible with democracy — a question with relevance for many countries in the world today. (suite…)

A Ramshackle Modernity 5 janvier 2014

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The New York Times (USA)  Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. BR 11
Book Review

By Martin Riker *

We’re having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s « Leg Over Leg » (1855), the marathon translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s 2,600-page « Zibaldone » (1898) and now « The Time Regulation Institute » (1962), the second great novel from Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. (suite…)

Turkish-Iranian relations since 1979: Assymetry of interest ? 6 février 2013

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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Wednesday,February 6 2013, p. 13

William Armstrong, Istanbul

Turkey and Iran have been rivals since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the Persian Safavid dynasty repeatedly clashed with its western neighbor, the Ottoman Empire. (suite…)

Book Review: Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy 8 janvier 2013

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German Marshall Fund of the United States, January 08, 2013

Emiliano Alessandri *

Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy is a welcome addition to the fast-growing literature in English on Turkish foreign policy. (suite…)

Broken Homeland 21 octobre 2012

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The New York Times (USA) Sunday, October 21, 2012, p. BR 11
Book Review

By Francine Prose *

Three siblings are paying their annual summer visit to their 90-year-old grandmother in the family home by the sea. Reduced to these bare bones of plot, Orhan Pamuk’s « Silent House » almost sounds like one of those plays about dynastic reunions that help keep the lights of Broadway bright (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch September 2012 30 septembre 2012

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, September 2012

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)

How the east was lost 28 juillet 2012

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Financial Times (UK)  Saturday, July 28, 2012, p. 8
FT Weekend Supplement – Life & Arts

By Mark Mazower *

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, » wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1889. This was nothing if not wishful thinking, and no one knew it better than the poet of the imperial Raj himself: indeed, that same year Kipling visited Hong Kong and bemoaned the likely impact of bringing railways and newspapers to China. « What, » he warned, « will happen when China really wakes up? » (suite…)

Skullduggery and murder in Istanbul 7 juin 2012

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International Herald Tribune (USA) Thursday, June 7, 2012, p. 14

By Jason Goodwin

Joseph Kanon is a specialist in fin de guerre thrillers. His novels « Alibi, » « Los Alamos, » « The Good German » and « Stardust » are set in 1945 and 1946. The period is well chosen: Dark secrets are finally coming to the surface and people are being called to account for what the war has made them. (suite…)

Turkey’s economic contribution overlooked by the EU 18 avril 2012

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EUobserver.com (Belgium) 18 April 2012

Selim Kuneralp *

On the Road to EU Membership: The Economic Transformation of Turkey. By Selen Sarisoy Guerin and Yannis Stivachtis (eds.). VUBPress; 302 pages; €37.74 (excl. VAT and shipping) at EUbookshop.com. (suite…)

Scandal and wonder by the Euphrates and the Thames 6 avril 2012

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The Independent (UK) April 6, 2012, p. 24
Arts & Books

by Alev Adil

Honour, a Turkish-Kurdish family saga set in London, takes Elif Shafak into new literary territory. Shafak is a prolific, controversial and critically acclaimed young Turkish novelist, columnist and academic whose previous novel, The Forty Rules of Love, has been long-listed for the 2012 IMPAC prize. (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch March 2012 31 mars 2012

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, March 2012

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)

The expendable sex 24 mars 2012

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Financial Times (UK) Saturday, March 24, 2012, p. 15

Review by Suzy Hansen

In her groundbreaking 2008 book Honour Killing , the Turkish journalist Ayse Onal interviewed a 14-year-old boy named Mehmet Taner who « slit the throat » of his 16-year-old cousin for « going about in cafés ». (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch November 2011 30 novembre 2011

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, November 2011

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch October 2011 31 octobre 2011

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, October 2011

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)

Acturca Journal Watch September 2011 30 septembre 2011

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Acturca Journal and Periodical Review, September 2011

Compiled by Ozan Yigitkeskin

Acturca Journal Watch monitors leading scholarly journals for articles of particular interest to scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history on Turkey. It is updated monthly. (suite…)