TURAN TALK with Assiya Issemberdiyeva, a Kazakh film critic and PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London

In the 1940s, Tashkent became an unlikely centre of Yiddish culture as Eastern European Jews were evacuated to Soviet Central Asia during World War II. Yet the story has remained largely forgotten.

TURAN TALK with Ruben Nikoghosyan, a lecturer in Middle, Classical, and Modern Persian language and literature

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TURAN TALK with Aksana Ismailbekova, a Kyrgyz anthropologist and research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)

As Russia’s anti-LGBTQ propaganda law spreads across the region, queer spaces in Kazakhstan’s second-largest city are disappearing – and with them, the city’s creative pulse.

TURAN TALK with Abigail Scripka, a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History

TURAN TALK with Dmitriy Mazorenko, a journalist and co-founder of the Superstructure research centre.

TURAN TALK with Sher Khashimov, a journalist and Dushanbe native

Murat Adam tried to defend the rights of his client, an editor under fire, and found himself in the state’s crosshairs.

TURAN TALK with Mihra Rittmann, senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch

They promised world-class education to a region shattered by the Soviet collapse. Twenty years later, Hizmet schools fell prey to Turkey’s internal conflicts - and their own secrecy.

TURAN TALK with Anushe Dust, founder and editor-in-chief of RugMag magazine

TURAN TALK with Anushe Dust, founder and editor-in-chief of RugMag magazine

TURAN TALK with Mélanie Sadozaï, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg

TURANT TALK with Joanna Lillis, journalist and author of "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan"

TURANT TALK with Joanna Lillis, journalist and author of "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan"

TURANT TALK with Joanna Lillis, journalist and author of "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan"

TURAN TALK with Timur Karpov, documentary photographer, curator, founder of the 139 Documentary Centre

TURAN TALK with Asel Doolotkeldieva, a research fellow at the University of Potsdam

With roughly a million Ukrainian refugees now residing in Poland and fears about hybrid war and border security unabated, discussions about migration have become entangled with a range of domestic and...

With roughly a million Ukrainian refugees now residing in Poland and fears about hybrid war and border security unabated, discussions about migration have become entangled with a range of domestic and...

With roughly a million Ukrainian refugees now residing in Poland and fears about hybrid war and border security unabated, discussions about migration have become entangled with a range of domestic…

TURAN TALK with Diora Rafieva, a lawyer and human rights activist

A conversation with journalist Agnieszka Pikulicka on shifting Central Asia reporting away from clichés and toward stories driven by people rather than geopolitics.

They came to Russia for work, not war. Yet thousands of Central Asian migrants now fight in Ukraine - drawn in by promises, pushed by pressure, and caught in a stark imbalance of power.

Government Podcast · Yurt Jurt - a podcast about decolonizing Central Asia and Beyond produced by Central Asian activists. Hosted by Dr. Diana Kudaibergen, Yurt Jurt dives deep into the decoloniality ...

TURAN TALK with Ruslan Myatiev, the founder of Turkmen.news

Astana has risen from the steppe as a city of glass, steel, and soaring ambition - a capital built to embody a nation’s dreams. But can a dream live up to its promise?

TURAN TALK with Hamid Ismailov, author of "We Computers: A ghazal novel"

TURAN TALK with Diana Kudaibergen, a cultural and political sociologist from University College London

TURAN TALK with Leora Eisenberg, an American historian and PhD student at Harvard

TURAN TALK with Galiya Ibragimova, a journalist and political scientist from Uzbekistan

The Caspian Sea is shrinking, its shores littered with seal carcasses. For scientist Assel Baimukanova, each one tells the story of an ecosystem on the brink.

TURAN TALK with Selbi Durdiyeva, a decolonial scholar from Turkmenistan, and a teaching fellow at the College of Law, Anthropology and Politics at SOAS, University of London

Immigrants are being blamed for crime in Poland, but statistics do not show they are disproportionately responsible.

TURAN TALK with Joanna Lillis, journalist and author of “Dark shadows: Inside the secret world of Kazakhstan”

TURAN TALK with Shahida Tulaganova on “Spirit Untamed,” her documentary about Bahrom Hamroev

Kazakh ecologists and environmental activists worry that the Caspian Sea’s levels are set to decline further.