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 religious sect now defies the strongest political party in Turkey. There must be a reason for this alarming self-confidence. Is it rooted in history; that is, does the sect have a long heritage? Not really -it is a movement that started to take shape in the 1970s. What about economic clout? Well, sort of; but in a country where each transaction…[Read more]

regulations for the workers’ safety, the inspection responsibilities as well as the authority of the state in the workplace have been privatized. Therefore, a group of families who lost their relatives in workplace accidents started a movement (the Watch for Conscience and Justice) requesting the public to monitor accidents and related legal r…[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