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Mesut Uyar

@mesutuyar.bsky.social
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Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23h
Get ready for the next stage. Most archives research trips to Vietnam end up in France.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Send me your address via DM
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I will give away my copy. It is a bit battered one though. If you want I can send it to you after finish reading it.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😎
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Enjoying a good book and wonderful weather
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Modern political elite
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I always like Roman brutal realism in art. So different from our age of the image
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Blame the French. They started this by including the river Seine into the Olympics in 2024. We need to surpass it
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No important action took place at Egypt-Sinai on 12 Oct 1915. So Pte. Amey died like the hero of Erich Maria Remargue's All Quiet on the Western Front
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Joke of the day
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Once upon a time in Afghanistan. Afghan military secondary school cadets c. 1920. Note. The school was founded in Bala Hissar with the help of Turkish military advisors.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've a signed copy 😎
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfl...
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“Binbaşı Abdürrauf’un Harp Günlükleri”, İş Kültür’de!
YouTube video by İş Kültür
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an interesting lecture, comparing Zionism with Greek Cypriot Enotism by Prof. Varnava www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlY...
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Professor Andrekos Varnava on Zionism and Enotism (Greek Cypriot enosis) as Colonialist Ideologies
YouTube video by Andrekos Varnava
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I like reading the 1950s and 60s books. They contain uncut jewels like this one. Source: Will&Aril Durant, The Lessons of History
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today's art gallery shot. Guo Jian, Untitled no. 1 Apparently the artist inspired from Caravaggio.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The Ottomans did not want a war with Romania but when the Romanians declared war they were quick to send an expeditionary force to support German, Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian offensive" For more you can download my chapter from the link below www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Ottoman Empire and the War with Romania
PDF | This is a book chapter about the military activities of an Ottoman army corps during the Romanian campaign of the First World War. The Ottomans... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I completely agree with you. Technological determinism at its best
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My new bed reading. Wish me luck
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A real Aussie success story. Getting a tenured academic position by punching all the right tickets whereas more qualified scholars doing menial jobs
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lest we forget
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Exactly why I shared the news
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An Aussie type "unfortunate error" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
Wrong landmark spotted on Sydney Marathon medal a week out from event
Runners who finish the Sydney Marathon will receive a medal featuring a football stadium in Germany instead of Moore Park due to an "unfortunate error".
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
By the way congrats for your new article. I just downloaded it
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes for the Mehdists it might be logical but not for modern scholars. Some influential Ottoman leaders and intellectuals saw the Mehdist movement with sympathy
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There is one problem though. The Mahdis had no direct contact with the Ottomans. When they talked about the Ottomans they actually meant the Egyptians under the British control.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
While taking a look at an old hard disc I found this photo taken in Kabul in March 2002. We distributed stationery and other items to a girls' school, making them very happy. These smiling girls managed to get education but their daughters will not. Nothing to say.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
While scrolling through the pages of Ralamb book of costumes, I came across the picture of Ottoman Robin Hood. But unlike his English counterpart Ottoman Robin opted for advance weapons by replacing bow and arrow with arquebus
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This 1/250,000 scale military map (1921) is the last Palestine map that was published by the Ottoman Empire.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
there is need for a glass of red wine to wash them down
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Surprising development in New Zealand, giving a snapshot of domestic sensitivities edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/a...
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New Zealand has a new official language — English | CNN
Lawmakers in New Zealand have passed a bill to make English one of the country’s official languages.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Australian public liked it so much that Kanal 9 shot a short series. www.imdb.com/title/tt0129...
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Gallipoli Campaign of the FWW is riddled with legends and stories. But this one by Australian soldier A.B. Facey is the most bizarre and funny one, just like an ancient Greek story with disappearing swimmers and a huge sea monster.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Getting there.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
What do you think about this excerpt? Source: Walter Reid, Empire of Sand, 2011
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An example
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I am afraid that I did not come across anything meaningful in English. There are some contemporary newspaper articles about them. The chief was Vehib Pasha
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Do you know that the British Intel in Egypt recruited ex Ottoman generals and staff officers to help Ethiopian army?
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It is always marvellous to put your hand on a hard copy of your book.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A tragic photo from Cyprus in January 1962. A Turkish Cypriot girl who had to escape from her village was trying to shepherd animals while carrying the framed marriage photo of her parents.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Because photographer David D. Duncan took a marvellous photo of the Turkish Cavalry which gives the impression of an old painting of bygone age of mounted warfare. Duncan later on put this photo at the cover of his memoirs
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In 1948 the US Government organised a press tour to Turkey in order to show how successful and crucial the US military aid to Turkish Armed Forces. But photo-obsessive Life Magazine editors decided to put Turkish cavalry brigade at the front instead of new US tanks 1/
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Gift from a friend.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Let me share Table of Contents also
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
At the end of the FWW there was a big popular interest in the US about Turkey due to discussions about Armenian mandate. Newspapers capitalized on this popularity by publishing interesting and quirky stories about Turkey See one of them below about Sabbatean crypto-Jews (New York Times, 26 Jan 1919)
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I am glad to announce the publication of my edited work. www.routledge.com/Eight-Armies...
routledge.com
Eight Armies on the Gallipoli Peninsula
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...
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Anybody remembers this strange but meaningful Soviet arithmetic poster?
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
No comment! Source: Burgmann, Wheatley, Radicals: Remembering the Sixties, Newsouth, Sydney, 2021
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