Ali Fethi Okyar’s grandson and namesake reflects on his grandfather’s life, and his own.
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PODCAST – Episode 17: Arab Exclusion at Lausanne
Elizabeth F. Thompson and Ozan Ozavci discuss Arab agency and exclusion at Lausanne, and its implications for the history of the wider Arab world, past and present.
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Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea
Aytek Soner Alpan discusses the difficulties faced by the Turkish (Muslim) exchangees after 1923, and how they resisted the over-centralized and chaotic policies adopted by the Turkish government.
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The Duce’s Debut
As Vanda Wilcox shows, Mussolini made quite an entrance at the Lausanne Conference – but what was his agenda?
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PODCAST – Episode 16: The Epitome of Loss
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Ozan Ozavci discuss the Armenian mission to Lausanne in 1922-3, the (performative) support they received from the Allied Powers and the Turkish response to plans for an autonomous Armenian Home.
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Dada Ha-Ha
Born of boredom, the “Museum” created by the Lausanne press corps in May 1923 was, Jonathan Conlin discovers, actually quite interesting.
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PODCAST – Episode 15: Dowry of the State
Ellinor Morack explains to Jonathan Conlin how she unpicked the tangled process of expropriation and re-allocation by which early Republican Turkey sought to create a “national economy”.
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The Strongest Premier in Europe?
The Bulgarian premier was one of the more colourful figures at Lausanne. John Paul Newman explains how Aleksandur Stambolyski sought to bring stability after a torrid ten years marked by impressive advances and sharp reversals.
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Not In Their League
It was assumed that Turkey would join the League of Nations after ratifying the 1923 Treaty. But as Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş shows, there were some bumps in the road from Lausanne to Geneva.
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PODCAST – Episode 14: Contesting Post-Kemalism
Ozan Ozavci invites İlker Aytürk to develop his critical response to Erik-Jan Zürcher’s arguments in last month’s TLP podcast.
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What is Global in the Greek-Turkish 1922?
Co-founder of The Global 1922 project, Georgios Giannakopoulos writes about the significance of 2022 for modern Greek and global history.
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PODCAST – Episode 13: Occupational History
Jonathan Conlin talks to Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal about Britain’s short-lived post-WWI empire in the eastern Mediterranean.
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One Year On
Ozan Ozavci and Jonathan Conlin survey the Lausanne Project’s first year and announce plans for 2023.
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The Turkish Patient
by Zenonas Tziarras
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PODCAST – Episode 12 (Part II): The Monopoly of Two Cultures
Erik-Jan Zürcher and Ozan Ozavci consider the two faces of Turkish historiography, as well as the tendency of Turkey’s political culture to relapse into authoritarianism after each liberal democratic opening.
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PODCAST – Episode 12 (Part I): ‘A Realistic Solution’
Erik-Jan Zürcher talks to Ozan Ozavci about the treaties of Sèvres, Lausanne and their legacy in different official histories of Turkey.
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Back to Anatolia
by Alekos Lamprou
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PODCAST – Episode 11: The Many Lives of Muhalefet
Ozan Ozavci talks to Christine Philliou about her new book “Turkey: A Past Against History” and the many lives of muhalefet (opposition) from the late Ottoman Empire to today.
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The Tricolour and the Crescent
by Bryony Harris
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PODCAST – Episode 10: The Roads to Lausanne
Jay Winter discusses his forthcoming landmark study of Lausanne with Jonathan Conlin.
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We’ve been here before
by Beste Işleyen
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PODCAST – Episode 9: Gaziantep’s Forgotten Past
Ümit Kurt explains to Jonathan Conlin how an innocent question asked in his local cafe launched him on a journey into Gaziantep’s past, uncovering the genocidal violence that gave birth to a new Muslim bourgeoisie.
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Çamërian Chimera?
by Isa Blumi
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Lesson learnt, or “easy way out”?
by Danilo Sarenac
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PODCAST – Episode 8: Eternal Dawn
Ryan Gingeras speaks to Ozan Ozavci about his 2019 book Eternal Dawn and the Kemalist mythos in Turkey.
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Toynbee or Not Toynbee?
by Jonathan Conlin
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(Re)Turning the Tables
by N. Kashani, B. Mendez, J. Schaller and E. Vuichoud
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A Railway that Goes Nowhere
by Zeynep Kaşlı
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PODCAST – Episode 7: The Other Republic
Ozan Ozavci talks to James Ryan about early Republican political thought and loyal opposition in Turkey: liberals and leftists from Nazım Hikmet to Sabiha and Zekeriya Sertel. What made these figures the loyal opponents of the republic? And what did Lausanne mean to them?
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Shouldn’t you be studying?
by Killian Amour, Syméon Bruzzese and Francisco Carvalho Da Costa
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