Listen to my interview with Murat Yildiz on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his new book, The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul (@utexaspress.bsky.social , 2026): newbooksnetwork.com/the-ottoman-...
Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul" (U Texas Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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"From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" with Suzy Hansen and @reubensilverman.bsky.social.[3/3]
Suzy Hansen, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" (FSG, 2026) - New Books Network
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Check out my interview for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Suzy Hansen about here new book From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan (@macmillanpubusa.bsky.social 2026): newbooksnetwork.com/from-life-it...
Suzy Hansen, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan" (FSG, 2026) - New Books Network
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Samet Ağaoğlu was a leader of Turkey's Democrat Party. He was also an aspiring man of letters and would-be patriarch of a highly artistic family. Check out my new piece, which translates an except from the book of short stories that he published while imprisoned during the early 1960s:
Writing with Conviction: Samet Ağaoğlu’s Prison Autofictions
After more than four years, Samet Ağaoğlu finally emerged from prison on October 8, 1964. Since May 1960, when military officers had launched a coup overthrowing Turkey’s Democrat Party-led governm…
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Samet Ağaoğlu was a leader of Turkey's Democrat Party. He was also an aspiring man of letters and would-be patriarch of a highly artistic family. Check out my new piece, which translates an except from the book of short stories that he published while imprisoned during the early 1960s:
Writing with Conviction: Samet Ağaoğlu’s Prison Autofictions
After more than four years, Samet Ağaoğlu finally emerged from prison on October 8, 1964. Since May 1960, when military officers had launched a coup overthrowing Turkey’s Democrat Party-led governm…
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Check out my interview with Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer of NYU (@nyukevo.bsky.social) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about her new book Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire(@universitypress.cambridge.org 2026): newbooksnetwork.com/boundaries-o...
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, "Boundaries of Belonging: Sectarianism and Statecraft in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2026) - New Books Network
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As the Halkbank case seems to be over, it seems worth sharing this overview of the case one last (?) time: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2022/03/22/h...
Halkbank and the Struggles of the 2010s
Halkbank, one of Turkey’s largest state-controlled financial institutions, gained notoriety during the 2010s as it was implicated in a scheme to evade Iranian sanctions. The bank, the scandal…
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bianet@bianet.org · 2mo agoABD, Halkbank davasını 9 yıl sonra düşürdü ABD’de İran yaptırımlarının delinmesine yardım ettiği iddiasıyla Halkbank hakkında açılan ceza davası, mahkeme kararıyla kesin olarak kapandı. buff.ly/KS0493L
Turkey is extracting more crude oil and gas from the land than ever before. Check out my short new piece placing this development in its historic context and considering its political and cultural implications: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/c...
Crude Ambitions: Turkey’s New Energy Discoveries and Grand Dreams
Energy Ministers from Qatar, Syria, Turkey, and Azerbaijan opening a opening a pipeline in August 2025 (Photo: Anadolu Ajansı) As US and Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian reprisals have disrupted…
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The Stockholm Institute for Turkish Studies was nice enough to organize an interview/book launch for me with Howard Eissenstat (@heissenstat.bsky.social) and Paul Levin (@paultlevin.bsky.social). Check it out: www.su.se/english/divi...
VIDEO: Reuben Silverman on the Democrat Party in 1950s Turkey and its reverberations - Stockholms universitet
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Check out my interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Foster Chamberlin about his new book Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War (@lsupress.bsky.social ): newbooksnetwork.com/uncivil-guard
Foster Chamberlin, "Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War" (Louisiana State UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Had a great discussion with @selimkoru.bsky.social and Reuben Silverman about Reuben's new book: kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
A conversation with historian Reuben Silverman on the 1950s, democratization, and what went wrong
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Check out my new piece about Yusuf Azizoğlu, Health Minister from 1962-63. He was the most prominent "Eastern" (i.e. Kurdish) politician in the cabinet up to that time. The piece discusses his political career and the opposition he faced while in office: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/a...
A Notable Kurdish Politician: Yusuf Azizoğlu and the New Turkey Party
From Cumhuriyet, October 5, 1963 By the time that Turkey’s Democrat Party government was removed by a military coup in 1960, its leaders had alienated large segments of the country’s elite. Worn do…
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📰 Sunday extras: "@reubensilverman.bsky.social on the rise and fall of Turkey's Democrat Party" via @turkeybooktalk.bsky.social. [1/5]
Reuben Silverman on the rise and fall of Turkey’s Democrat Party
Turkey Book Talk #259 – Reuben Silverman on “The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60” (Cambridge University Press). It is an excellent book …
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Delighted to have former SUITS postdoctoral researcher @reubensilverman.bsky.social’s book with @universitypress.cambridge.org in my hand! Reuben spent much of his time at the @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Institute for Turkish Studies working on the book.+
Geçen hafta biyoloji felsefesi ve süreç felsefesi ile ilgili konuştuğumuz yayın şu bağlantıdan dinlenebilir: youtu.be/tQ9yHafEvI0?... #bilimfelsefesi #biyolojifelsefesi 🌿
Süreç Felsefesi – Dr. Özlem Yılmaz Silverman
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Check out my new book "The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 ( @universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Cambridge Core - Middle East History - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
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Check out my interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @selimkoru.bsky.social about his new book New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country (@ibtauris.bsky.social 2025): newbooksnetwork.com/new-turkey-a...
Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025) - New Books Network
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Read my new post about Peyami Safa (as well as a translation of one of his Cingöz Recai stories). His writing--often disturbingly--reflected the philosophical, political, and social debates of his times: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/v...
Vital Impulses, Fascist Sympathies: Peyami Safa and His Early Work
Ad for Safa’s forthcoming serial novel Şimşek in Cumhuriyet, February 2, 1926 In his lifetime, Peyami Safa was one of Turkey’s most popular authors; he wrote newspaper columns, short stories,…
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Check out my interview with Nicole Watts (@nfwatts.bsky.social) about her new book, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan (@nyupress.bsky.social, 2025) on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/republic-of-...
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Check out my interview with Emine Ö. Evered about her new book Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity ( University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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Read my paper about Turkey-Qatar relations. I argue shared world-views between the AKP and Qatari rulers only partially explain the relationship; as important are changes in the economies of both countries which give their leaders something to offer one another: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Defiant Ones: The Growing Alignment of Turkish-Qatari Interests Since 1985
The relationship between Turkey and Qatar has become a crucial factor shaping West Asia and North Africa (WANA) political and economic dynamics. Since 2011, the two countries have pursued complimen...
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Check out my new piece on Yasar Kemal and the people who helped make him into the internationally famous author he became. It includes a translation of his journalism about the bandit Cakircali Mehmet Efe: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/t...
The Writer as Bandit: The Making of “Yaşar Kemal”
From Cumhuriyet, January 21, 1956 He would certainly have made an impression on the Dino brothers when they first met him in Adana in the early 1940s. Abidin and Arif Dino were urbanites, art…
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Until I post something new, here's what I've been working on lately :) reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/e...
Efe: From the Mountains to the Silver Screen
Like westerns in the US or samurai films in Japan, the efe film genre in Turkey drew on a past, partly real, partly mythologized, to create stories that resonated with movie-goers during the 1950s …
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