Turkey

A major new history of the 600-year dynasty that connected East to West as never before....

Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact....

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers....

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia....

Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

This audiobook includes details of the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, where Europe saw significant shifts across the continent in phases....

The long agony of the “sick man of Europe”, an expression used by the tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history....

Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed....

A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....

The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairy tale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pashas, and ill-fated harem women. The true stories of genuine sultans and princes are a bit more complicated and no less exciting....

The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts....

It doesn’t seem like Enver Pasha was a good man. His war crimes caused the deaths of millions of innocent citizens. Sure, during a war and a collapsing empire, you try to do what you can to stop losing, but I doubt anyone in their right mind can justify his actions....

While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....

The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period....

If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then pay attention....

A masterful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down the perpetrators of a genocide....

Ey Turk gencligi! Birinci gorevin, Turk bagimsizligini, Turk Cumhuriyeti'ni sonsuza kadar korumak ve savunmaktir.…Zorla ve aldatmacayla sevgili vatanin butun kaleleri zaptedilmis, butun tersanelerine girilmis....

For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land....

Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War....

Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago - and yet, travelling through 12 countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant....

 Explore a major turning point in the history of Europe and the Middle East....

Inside, you will hear about the history of the Ottoman empire, including: origins until the Balkan conquests; institutions and society; 15th-century imperial style, 16th-century Golden Age, cracks before World War I; the Eastern Question; and much more....