Mesut Uyar
@mesutuyar.bsky.social
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 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
Surprising development in New Zealand, giving a snapshot of domestic sensitivities edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/a...
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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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.
What do you think about this excerpt? Source: Walter Reid, Empire of Sand, 2011
It is always marvellous to put your hand on a hard copy of your book.
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.
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/
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)
I am glad to announce the publication of my edited work. www.routledge.com/Eight-Armies...
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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Anybody remembers this strange but meaningful Soviet arithmetic poster?
No comment! Source: Burgmann, Wheatley, Radicals: Remembering the Sixties, Newsouth, Sydney, 2021
Mustafa Zarif Paşa'nın Asakiri Mansure'nin ilk kurulduğu dönemde yüzbaşı rütbesi ve yeni Avrupa tarzı üniformasıyla Siverek ve Urfa'ya gittiğinde başından geçenler. "Sizin hiç uatanmanız hayanız yok mu?" Bahse konu yüzbaşı üniformasının temsili resmini de ekleyeyim.
From Life Magazine archive. Turkish (right) and Iranian border guards posed in front of magnificent view of Great and Lesser Ararat (Ağrı) for western journalist during the hot days of the Cold War in 1951
My university UNSW has managed to become no. 1 in Australian and no. 19 in the world according to 2027 QS World University Rankings🎉
Today while dining this abomination convoy passed in front of us. Mobile bilboards making Russian propaganda in Sydney. Thanks to standard Z incompetency one of the trucks crashed a tree and damaged a car. youtube.com/watch?v=8D1F...
The first known Arab with a large private library decided to burn his books before his death out of jealousy.
Today this photo popped up on my screen while looking for something. It immediately clicked some bitter memories. I was a UN military observer in Abkhazia in 2000-2001. With the start of each mandarin harvest season the violence would reach to its peak. As if mandarin was a kind of narcotic drug
Is there any body remembering de Gaulle's what if wish? "Ah, cher ami, if only we had 180 million people!"
Would you belive this? British Conservative Party 1929 general election poster.
Sad to hear that Marjane Satrapi of Persepolis (graphic novel-movie) has passed away a few hours ago. She was just 56 years old. Ruhesh shad!
#BookoftheDay I've started reading Dewey's Impressions of Soviet Russia and Revolutionary World. See the first pages of chapter allocated for Turkey.
Bayramınız kutlu olsun. Bu yüklü gündemde huzur zor. O yüzden sağlık ve esenlikler dilerim. Eid mubarak
From White Horde (Ak Orda) to Golden Horde (Altın Orda) Kazakhstan's new historical choice. timesca.com/kazakhstan-r...
Kazakhstan Reclaims the Golden Horde - The Times Of Central Asia
Kazakhstan’s symposium on the Golden Horde opens, in formal institutional terms, the question of where the country locates its statehood. Held in Astana on
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Gandhi day demonstrations in Delhi in July 1922. Notice the presence of Turkish flag which became the symbol resistance against the British
