Gülay Yılmaz
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Gülay Yılmaz
@gulayyilmaz.bsky.social
Associate Prof. of History @Akdeniz University, Ottoman Empire, early modern history, military, gender, age, childhood, slavery
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NEW Podcast: In the Archive with Beshara Doumani

Starting a new series on the gems in MERIP’s archive, we interviewed Beshara Doumani about his landmark 1989 essay, “Abu Farid’s House” and the changes in Palestine since the First Intifada.
The MERIP Podcast Episode 11: In the Archive with Beshara Doumani
Today we have a very special episode, part of a new occasional series that will highlight some of the truly great work MERIP has done over the last 50-plus years, all of which is free to read in our…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The video of the online conversation "Living in Authoritarian Times" that we co-organized with the April Institute and Critup is now online: Rahul Bhatia, Volkan Çidam, Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, and Joseph Howley, moderated by Zeynep Gambetti.

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Living in Authoritarian Times: Everyday Struggles and Antifascist Tactics
YouTube video by April Institute
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November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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My latest book, on open access!

Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
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November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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新刊 スレイマン1世の第二次東方遠征と遠征の日録 全2巻1300頁超
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın İkinci Doğu Seferi ve Sefer Rûznâmçe Defteri (955-956 / 1548-1549) / Feridun M. Emecen, Vural Genç (haz./çev.). 2 cilt. Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Yayınları, 2025. 978-625-6110-34-2 osmn
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Kanuni Sultan Süleyman’ın İkinci Doğu Seferi ve Sefer Rûznâmçe Defteri (955-956 / 1548-1549) | Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi
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October 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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#OtD 16 Oct 1968 African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in a Black power salute as they won medals. Peter Norman showed solidarity by wearing a badge protesting the white Australia policy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8831...
October 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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When the Nazis came to power, a writer began collecting people’s dreams and uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The special issue featuring our article (co-authored with Nurşen Adak) is now out!
#genderequality #gender #gep
Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...
Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
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October 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📷 View of the City of #Aleppo from the Castle, Syria, 1898
October 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📷 Bulgarian Children in Edirne, c. 1870 (Western Türkiye)
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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論文 17世紀オスマン帝国における薪木の供給
Olivier Bouquet, "Firewood Provisioning in the 17th-Century Ottoman State." Der Islam 102(2) (2025): 481-520. otmn
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Firewood Provisioning in the 17th-Century Ottoman State
The study outlined here responds to a two-fold historiographical observation. First, wood has mainly been studied, both recently and secondarily, by historians interested in the seasonal administratio...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Transforming Organizational Culture: The First Gender Equality Plan of Akdeniz University in Turkey | Article | Social Inclusion www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus...
Transforming Organizational Culture: The First Gender Equality Plan of Akdeniz University in Turkey | Article | Social Inclusion
Gülay Yılmaz, Nurşen Adak
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October 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM