Eastern Mediterranean history: Coasts and coalitions 23 mai 2015
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, History / Histoire, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est.Tags: Albanian, Balkans, Book Review, Eastern Mediterranean, Noel Malcolm, Ottoman Empire
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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…)
A myth of bad borders 22 mars 2015
Posted by Acturca in France, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: border, Iraq, ISIS, Ottoman Empire, Sean McMeekin, soft power, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Syria, World War I
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Los Angeles Times (USA) Sunday, March 22, 2015, p. 18
By Sean McMeekin *
Control of territory in the Middle East comes through force, as Islamic State reminds us. With a massive invasion by U.S. ground troops ruled out — for now — the debate in Washington over what to do about Islamic State militants has shifted into the realm of diplomacy and “soft power.” (suite…)
End of an empire 14 février 2015
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Eugene Rogan, Mark Mazower, Ottoman Empire, World War I
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Financial Times (UK) February 14, 2015, p. 7
By Mark Mazower
Essay How the Ottoman decision to enter the first world war on the side of the Central Powers led to political collapse, immense bloodshed – and the birth of the modern Middle East. (suite…)
Imperial City 7 décembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, History / Histoire, Immigration, Istanbul, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Book Review, Charles King, Ottoman Empire, Pera Palace
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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…)
‘Young Turks more aware of World War I than older ones’ 10 novembre 2014
Posted by Acturca in EU / UE, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Anne Bostanci, British Council, Ottoman Empire, survey, UK, World War I
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Hürriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, November 10, 2014, p. 4
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
In Turkey young generations know more about and feel more affected by events related to World War I than older generations and accordingly differ from their peers in the United Kingdom, says Anne Bostanci, the co-author of the British Council’s report based on a survey conducted in seven countries. (suite…)
The Ottoman revival that is anything but brotherly 29 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ottoman Empire, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Sami Moubayed, Syria
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Gulf News (UAE) June 29, 2014, p. A5
By Sami Moubayed *, Special to Gulf News
The efforts of Turkish premier Erdogan to bring about the revival of the empire’s intellectual, political, economic and social influence is now viewed across the Arab world as nothing more than a ploy to subjugate the region in much the same way as was done 100 years ago. (suite…)
From Both Sides of the Aegean: Expulsion and Exchange of Populations, Turkey-Greece: 1922-1924 21 mars 2014
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Bruce Clark, conflicts, documentary, forced population exchange, Greece, Maria Iliou, movie review, Ottoman Empire
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The New York Times (USA) Friday, March 21, 2014, p. C 14
Movies, Performing Arts/Weekend ~ Movie Review
By Miriam Bale
The full title of the new documentary by Maria Iliou, « From Both Sides of the Aegean: Expulsion and Exchange of Populations, Turkey-Greece: 1922-1924, » is quite a mouthful. (suite…)
The Legacy of World War I Continues to Linger 31 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Armenia, Cold War, conflicts, Ilter Turan, Lausanne Treaty, Ottoman Empire, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, World War I
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German Marshall Fund of the United States, January 31, 2014
Ilter Turan *
What were the effects of World War I on Turkey and its relations with the world? Even 100 years after, it may still be too soon to tell. Yet, some important domestic and regional questions that Turkey currently encounters can be traced back to the war and its aftermath. (suite…)
Suleiman the Magnificent reconquers Arab world, Balkans 9 décembre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ottoman Empire, Soliman le Magnifique, Suleiman the Magnificent, TV series
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Agence France Presse, Monday, December 9, 2013 Français
by Acil Tabbara, Aleksandra Niksic
Dubai – Can a smash TV soap bring closure for historical wrongs and succour from contemporary turmoil? Check out a Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent. (suite…)
No Ottoman solutions 7 octobre 2013
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ottoman Empire
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The Guardian (UK) Monday, October 7, 2013, p. 27
David Shariatmadari
Middle East turmoil is fuelling nostalgia for the old empire, but that won’t help to end the crisis. (suite…)
Turkey and the Dream of Ottoman Revival 20 mai 2013
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Davutoglu, foreign policy, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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The Wall Street Journal Asia (USA) May 20, 2013, p. 11
By Hillel Fradkin & Lewis Libby *
The Middle East isn’t returning to an era of Ottoman-enforced peace and stability—no matter how badly Ankara wants it. (suite…)
Turkey oil deal signals end of post-Ottoman empire order 20 mai 2013
Posted by Acturca in Energy / Energie, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Middle East, oil, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) Monday, May 20, 2013, p. 2
By David Gardner in London
Confirmation that Turkey plans to buy into the oil and gas wealth of the self-governing Kurdish region of northern Iraq has led to warnings – most stridently from the US – that Ankara is gambling with the break-up of Iraq. (suite…)
The Sultan’s Raiders: The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in the Ottoman Empire 19 mai 2013
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire.Tags: Brian Glyn Williams, Crimean Tatar, History, military, military history, Ottoman Empire
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The Jamestown Foundation (USA) May 2013, 53 p.
Brian Glyn Williams *
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the Christian nations of Europe and the Shiites of Persia were forced to defend their lands against the inroads of an ever expanding Ottoman Empire, an empire whose awesome war machine at times appeared strong enough to absorb its immediate neighbors. (suite…)
A monument to an adventurer’s fantasies 29 novembre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, France, History / Histoire, Istanbul, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: museum, Ottoman Empire, Pierre Loti, Restoration and Renovation, Rochefort, Turkey
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International Herald Tribune, Thursday, November 29, 2012
By Susanne Fowler, Rochefort (France)
The French government shores up a novelist’s Ottoman celebration. (suite…)
Turkey succeeded in building « own model », says scholar 29 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: History, interview, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, İlber Ortaylı
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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey) Monday, October 29, 2012, p. 6
Barçın Yinanç, Istanbul
As Turkey celebrates the 89th anniversary of the republic, a historian says Turkey is one of the few states in the Islamic world that comes close to the concept of a contemporary republic. ‘Turkey built its own model,’ says İlber Ortaylı, adding that Turkey’s recipe of secularism and modernity is attractive in the Middle East. (suite…)
Author Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar: Turkish Minority Can and Should Have a Constructive Place in Bulgarian Society and Politics 11 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, History / Histoire, Religion, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmed Dogan, Balkans, book, Bulgaria, EU membership, History, Ibrahim Karahasan-Chynar, interview, Islam, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Ottoman Empire, Roxolana, soap opera, Turkey, Turkey-EU, Turkish minority
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Novinite.com (Bulgaria) October 11, 2012, Thursday
Maria Guineva
Neighboring Turkey has always caused fierce debates in Bulgaria on the 500 years of Ottoman rule, on the interpretation of historical facts, on the Communist regime’s Revival Process to replace the names of Bulgarian Muslims with Christian ones (suite…)
Turkey would do well to remember its history 8 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Norman Stone, Ottoman Empire, Syria, Turkey
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The Times (UK) October 8, 2012, p. 20
Norman Stone *
The shelling of Syria and talk of war are the actions of an overconfident Government. Anyone familiar with Turkey will have seen the ubiquitous statues of the country’s founder, Kemal Atatürk. (suite…)
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