Turkey + the Ottoman Empire

Book Reviews

Ismail Kadare: The Siege
- a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
Cemal Kafadar: Between Two Worlds**
The Construction of the Ottoman State
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters
- an aristocratic Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey
Chris Morris: The New Turkey
The Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe
Barbara Nadel: Deep Waters
- an Inspector Ikmen mystery, set in Istanbul
Irfan Orga: Portrait of a Turkish Family
- a childhood at the end of the Ottoman empire
Mary Lee Settle: Turkish Reflections
A Biography of a Place
Dido Sotiriou: Farewell Anatolia
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
Erik J. Zürcher: Turkey: A Modern History*
- late Ottomans, Young Turks, and a troubled democracy

See also: Eastern Europe | Middle East