A three-part blogpost on forbidden video games, internet-bans in Turkey, with allusions to the history of games in Europe, and the separation of ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ worlds. Published at geekyapar.com.

A book review of the Turkish translation of Robert Darnton’s The Great Cat Massacre (2015), published on the Anamed blog.

A book review on Robert Darnton’s The Case for Books (2009), published on the Anamed blog.

An op-ed on the urban politics in Istanbul.

An op-ed on Justin McCarthy’s 2011 lecture at the London School of Economics. Published at the web news portal, Bianet.org.

A co-authored piece on the transformation of the Turkish state under the Justice and Development Party Government.

Hümanist, postyapısalcı, seküler, anti-emperyalist, teorisyen, İngiliz edebiyatı eleştirmeni ya da direnişçi, Said’in birbiriyle zaman zaman çelişen ve bu çelişkileriyle zenginleşen sıfatlarından hangisini alırsanız alın; neo-Osmanlıcı, Pan-İslamist, pragmatist, realpolitikci ve muktedir gibi, yine zaman zaman çelişen sıfatlara haiz Davutoğlu’…[Read more]

A paper published in the Vangelis Kechriotis special issue of Toplumsal Tarih (August 2016, no: 272). Edited by Ece Zerman.

“Tarihçi Kechriotis’in Tarihini Yazmak: Bir Başlangıç, Bir Deneme” (Writing the History of Kechriotis, the Historian: A Beginning, an Essay). Toplumsal Tarih 272 (August 2016): 54-56.

Tarihçi Vangelis Kechriot…[Read more]

Kentel, K. (2017). Charles King. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul. New York: W.W. Norton, 2014, xiv 476 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey, 57, 146-150. doi:10.1017/npt.2017.34

Published in Youssouf Bey: Charged Portraits of Fin-de-Siècle Beyoğlu, edited by Bahattin Öztuncay, 63-79. Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı, 2016.