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The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Cambridge Core - Middle East History - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
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Check out my new book "The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 (
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Check out my new book "The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 (
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
Cambridge Core - Middle East History - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
www.cambridge.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Check out my new book "The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party: The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60 (
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
@universitypress.cambridge.org). It's available in print and also online at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
Check out my interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @selimkoru.bsky.social about his new book New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country (@ibtauris.bsky.social 2025): newbooksnetwork.com/new-turkey-a...
Selim Koru, "New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country" (I. B. Tauris, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Check out my interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @selimkoru.bsky.social about his new book New Turkey and the Far Right: How Reactionary Nationalism Remade a Country (@ibtauris.bsky.social 2025): newbooksnetwork.com/new-turkey-a...
Read my new post about Peyami Safa (as well as a translation of one of his Cingöz Recai stories). His writing--often disturbingly--reflected the philosophical, political, and social debates of his times: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/v...
Vital Impulses, Fascist Sympathies: Peyami Safa and His Early Work
Ad for Safa’s forthcoming serial novel Şimşek in Cumhuriyet, February 2, 1926 In his lifetime, Peyami Safa was one of Turkey’s most popular authors; he wrote newspaper columns, short stories,…
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July 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Read my new post about Peyami Safa (as well as a translation of one of his Cingöz Recai stories). His writing--often disturbingly--reflected the philosophical, political, and social debates of his times: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/v...
Check out my interview with Nicole Watts (@nfwatts.bsky.social) about her new book, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan (@nyupress.bsky.social, 2025) on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/republic-of-...
Nicole Watts, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan" (NYU Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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June 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Check out my interview with Nicole Watts (@nfwatts.bsky.social) about her new book, "Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan (@nyupress.bsky.social, 2025) on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: newbooksnetwork.com/republic-of-...
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Reuben Silverman - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60
October 2025, Cambridge UP
The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60
October 2025, Cambridge UP
June 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reuben Silverman - The Rise and Fall of Turkey's Democrat Party
The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60
October 2025, Cambridge UP
The Cold War and Illiberalism, 1945–60
October 2025, Cambridge UP
Check out my interview with Emine Ö. Evered about her new book Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (
University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)
University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)
Emine Ö Evered, "Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity" (U Texas Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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February 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Check out my interview with Emine Ö. Evered about her new book Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity (
University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)
University of Texas Press, 2024): newbooksnetwork.com/prohibition-... (and the book is available here: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330319/)
Read my paper about Turkey-Qatar relations. I argue shared world-views between the AKP and Qatari rulers only partially explain the relationship; as important are changes in the economies of both countries which give their leaders something to offer one another: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Defiant Ones: The Growing Alignment of Turkish-Qatari Interests Since 1985
The relationship between Turkey and Qatar has become a crucial factor shaping West Asia and North Africa (WANA) political and economic dynamics. Since 2011, the two countries have pursued complimen...
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February 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Read my paper about Turkey-Qatar relations. I argue shared world-views between the AKP and Qatari rulers only partially explain the relationship; as important are changes in the economies of both countries which give their leaders something to offer one another: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out my new piece on Yasar Kemal and the people who helped make him into the internationally famous author he became. It includes a translation of his journalism about the bandit Cakircali Mehmet Efe: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/t...
The Writer as Bandit: The Making of “Yaşar Kemal”
From Cumhuriyet, January 21, 1956 He would certainly have made an impression on the Dino brothers when they first met him in Adana in the early 1940s. Abidin and Arif Dino were urbanites, art…
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January 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Check out my new piece on Yasar Kemal and the people who helped make him into the internationally famous author he became. It includes a translation of his journalism about the bandit Cakircali Mehmet Efe: reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2025/01/26/t...
Until I post something new, here's what I've been working on lately :) reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/e...
Efe: From the Mountains to the Silver Screen
Like westerns in the US or samurai films in Japan, the efe film genre in Turkey drew on a past, partly real, partly mythologized, to create stories that resonated with movie-goers during the 1950s …
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January 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Until I post something new, here's what I've been working on lately :) reubensilverman.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/e...