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Feminist historiography in Turkey has long dismissed the period between the 1930s and 1980s as the ‘barren period’ of the women’s movement. To understand the diverse and conflicted genealogies of Turkey’s feminism(s), we argue, it is...

How efficient are computerised tools in studying women’s history? Can the field benefit from highly technicalised approaches more than qualitative approaches? Is qualitative data quantified when we analyse literary texts for women’s history with...

This paper addresses the ritualized power-balancing act illustrated by investiture ceremonies of what in Romanian historiography are designated as Phanariot princes or hospodars. The discussion focuses on the specific gifts exchanged in the highly...

Turkish literature in Armenian script comprises a large corpus of manuscripts dating from the 14th century together with printed material published between the 18th and 20th centuries. Books were printed in a wide geographical area and their...

A review of the Arab publications on modern Turkey that have appeared since the 1970s and their examination with regard to the image of the founder of the Turkish republic, M. K. Atatürk (1881-1938), reveals a rather negative image and leads one to...

At the height of their classical period, the Ottomans drew the regional landscape indoors, making West Asian flowers the symbols of their most coveted objects. By the mid-sixteenth century, they had synthesized a great stylistic and horticultural...

The history of pastoralist and agricultural societies in Central Asia is intimately interlinked with the non-human world: non-human animals shared their habitat with humans, domesticated animals were used as meat, fur, milk and fuel suppliers,...

British colonial understanding of arid Mediterranean environments was characterised by the idea of degradation: these environments were seen as an aberration from the ‘norm’ of the lush and fertile British forests and grasslands. The struggle...

In this article, I examine the affective politics surrounding the management of stray dogs in Jordan. I suggest that human-dog relations in Jordan, including how different actors talk about, interact with, and care for dog life, can be read as a...

One of the most frequent cases in which vermin appear in Ottoman official correspondence is when they “attack” or “invade” human settlements, consuming or destroying food produced specifically for human consumption. Until effective ways and...

Kemal Varol’s 2014 novel Haw is an account of the multiple facets of the war between the Turkish army, Kurdish guerrilla and other underground organizations during the 1990s in eastern Turkey, recounted by a dog. İdris Baluken’s Oko (2019) is...

Between 1650 and 1750, the English Thoroughbred horse was created from Ottoman imports grafted upon native racing stock in an asymmetrical Anglo-Ottoman exchange, with appropriation leading to naturalisation and radical assimilation. The Ottoman...

This article analyzes the relationship between Ottoman sovereignty and animal actors as presented by members of the Ottoman imperial court (dergāh-ı ʿālī) reporting on Sultan Mehmed IV’s (r. 1648-1687) hunting expeditions. Upon a close...

This article examines how Turkish parliamentarians continuously (re)shape Turkey’s identity and geopolitical role by using the metaphor of a bridge in parliamentary debates from 1988 to 2016. First, the article argues that parliamentarians use...

The satirical weekly Gırgır, founded by Oğuz Aral in 1972, has been Turkey’s best-selling satirical magazine of all times. Characterized by a multitude of genres and styles, its contents ranged from written jokes to comics and political...