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

Will Hanley’s analysis of the 1909 revision of the 1869 Ottoman Nationality Law takes up one of the central themes that occupied the Office of Legal Counsel: the slippery relationship between the legal definitions of nationality, subjecthood, and citizenship. As Hanley argues, recent scholarship on the 1869 Ottoman Nationality Law has c…[Read more]

This essay is part of a pioneering special issue on Ottoman international law, and analyses the work of several Egyptian and Ottoman lawyers focused on the understudied field of private international law. It argues for greater attention to the history of private international law by examining lawyers and functionaries in Ottoman and post-Ottoman…[Read more]

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

This article argues that during World War I, the Syrian and Lebanese periodical press in the American mahjar created new space for transnational political activism. In São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York City, diasporic journalists and political activists nurtured a new nationalist narrative and political culture in the press. In a public…[Read more]