Turkey Book Talk #277 – Benjamin Fortna, professor of history at the University of Arizona, on “The Shortest History of Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic” (Old Street Pu…

As Europe sends increasing amounts of illegal waste to Turkey, activists and investigators are revealing how the country’s state-backed recycling boom depends on fraud, off-the-books subcontracting an...

The oldest Buddhist temple in Europe is an architectural anomaly, built in memory of the Kalmyk regiment that fought Napoleon

The world’s biggest AI companies are buying antiquarian books en masse so they can be scanned to train their large language models (LLMs) before being destroyed.

What a neglected archive tells us about Ottoman Egypt's Jewish community and the empire around it.

The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, reveal...

SAMANDAĞ—From a restaurant on the road that links Antakya and Vakıflı, the views towards Mount Musa are spectacular.

Turkey Book Talk #271 – Long-time Istanbul-based journalist Jennifer Hattam on her work updating the Lonely Planet travel guide to Turkey. The conversation touches on the immense amount of wo…

DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the 1,000-year-old archeological site to make sure it was protected, a local said.

Registration is now open for the May 2026 class! Beware of Small States: Lebanon since 1975 In this 5-parts class, you will get an overview of Lebanese history and politics from 1975, with a focus …

Raquel Gutiérrez is a poet, essayist, writer and educator based in Tucson — their newest book is called "Southwest Reconstruction." It’s their first book of poetry and draws inspiration from both the ...