Dicle Nur Aktan @diclenuraktan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026www.birgun.net/makale/galip...birgun.netGalip Yalman ile söyleşi: Kriz, Düzen ve SavaşKurallar aşınıyor, ABD hala yönlendirme kapasitesine sahip olduğunu düşünüyor ama sonuç üretme kapasitesi zayıflıyor. Dolayısıyla, küresel düzeyde, yeni bir tarihsel blok oluşturma kapasitesinden yoks... 000
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanFrancesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Just one week to go! The deadline is next Wednesday, January 21. Send us your proposals. 012
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Discussant Cihan Artunç (Middlebury College) reflects on the causes of urbanization and structural change, as well as the role of agglomeration economies. Many thanks for the thoughtful discussion. 021
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Did urbanization and occupational change follow linear paths across regions and what does this reveal about industrialization? Efe Erünal (Koç University) examines this using long-run, harmonized data from the Ottoman and interwar periods. #EconomicHistory #Industrialization 133
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026How did telegraphy strengthen state capacity? Yıldırım, Akyıldız and Cosgel show that in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, it did so by linking physical infrastructure with internal labor markets and personnel mobility. #StateCapacity #EconomicHistory 132
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Comments and questions by @msaleh1982 expand on alternative explanations, the measurement of state capacity, and highlight the richness of the data. Thanks to everyone for the stimulating discussion! #EconomicHistory #Telegraph 032
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Ready to start Session II, chaired by Cihan Artunç. Two papers explore the development of the postal and telegraph network as well as structural changes in urban employment and urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 032
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A lively discussion by Şevket Pamuk (Boğaziçi University), who offered insightful comments and proposed several avenues to expand the research agenda. Many thanks for the excellent suggestions and thoughtful questions. 021
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026How did Import Substitution Industrialisation and market liberalisation shape the emergence and consolidation of Turkey’s automotive industry? Seven Ağır (Middle East Technical University) examines this, bridging business history and comparative political economy. #EconomicHistory #BusinessHistory 142
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026How did foreign aid interact with local institutions during the early Cold War? Adoración Álvaro-Moya (@cunef.bsky.social) and Núria Puig (@ucm.es) examine business education as a key transmission channel in Turkey and Spain. #EconomicHistory 132
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Thanks so much to Ali Coşkun Tuncer (@ucl.ac.uk) for discussing the paper by @diclenuraktan and for offering very useful comments and suggestions, which led to a very engaging discussion (@msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social @cartunc.bsky.social and Onur Yükçü)! 032
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026How did Turkey’s banking system move from public dominance to consolidation? @diclenuraktan.bsky.social analyzes six decades of institutional change in commercial banking, from the 1960s to the 2010s. #EconomicHistory #BusinessHistory 032
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Session I, chaired by Onur Yükçu is about the political economy of business and industry: banking consolidation, foreign aid & business education during the Cold War, and the rise of Turkey’s automotive sector. We are ready for some fun contributions! 021
Dicle Nur Aktan @diclenuraktan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Great to see my review of this fascinating collection on cross-regional labor history of Greece and Turkey being shared! 📖 010
Reposted by Dicle Nur AktanIndustrial History Review @rhi-ihr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Papastefanaki, Leda and M. Erdem Kabadayı, eds. 2022. Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. 342 pp. Reviewed by @diclenuraktan.bsky.social (@ub.edu) revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi... 053
