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Mustafa Türkan

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Studies the visual politics of cinema in late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey, focusing on how media practices contributed to the Republic’s ways of seeing. https://mustafaturkan.academia.edu/research

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Utku Can Akın ile Petar Zoranić-World Harmony kazasına dair makalemiz YILLIK’ın yeni sayısında. Bizim için disaster studies’den yıkıntı estetiğine kadar uzanan uzun bir yolculuktu.

Makaleye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

31.12.2025 06:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great to see that my article Lifesaving, Sovereignty, & the Place of the Late Ottoman Empire in the European International Order is now officially out in excellent company in the latest issue of the Journal of World History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899. OA through zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1753...

11.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Utku Can Akın ile Petar Zoranić-World Harmony kazasına dair makalemiz YILLIK’ın yeni sayısında. Bizim için disaster studies’den yıkıntı estetiğine kadar uzanan uzun bir yolculuktu.

Makaleye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

31.12.2025 06:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Holographic Atatürk: From Commemorative Pageantry to Technological Resurrection This article offers a fresh theoretical intervention in celebrity studies by exploring digital resurrection and necro-celebrity through the holographic projections of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, often hail...
17.12.2025 18:22 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The holographic Atatürk: from commemorative pageantry to technological resurrection This article offers a fresh theoretical intervention in celebrity studies by exploring digital resurrection and necro-celebrity through the holographic projections of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, often h...

New publication! If you’re interested in celebrity afterlives, digital resurrection, and the politics of iconic dead leaders in a platform age, I think you’ll find it a thought-provoking (and occasionally weird) read.

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Her metnin, diğer her şeyin yanı sıra, bir oyun daveti olmasını arzularım. Bu metni Atatürk’ü artık bir celebrity olarak ele alma, Türkiye’deki necro-branding üzerine düşünme ve hologramlara speculative realist bir yaklaşım oluşturma daveti olarak görüyorum.

06.12.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bu yıl içime sinen birkaç metin yazma şansım oldu. Okurun metnin hangi disipline ait olduğunu anladığını anda ontolojisinin değişmesini kabul edecek o kadar az dergi var ki…

06.12.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Çok teşekkür ederim 🙏🏻

05.12.2025 17:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you’re into celebrity, technology, Turkish politics – or all of the above – you might enjoy this one.

If you can’t access it, feel free to DM me (or Utku).

05.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Together with Utku Can Akın, we look at how holographic Atatürks rework the founding father’s image through digital resurrection, necro-branding, speculative realism and new forms of political pageantry.

05.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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The holographic Atatürk: from commemorative pageantry to technological resurrection This article offers a fresh theoretical intervention in celebrity studies by exploring digital resurrection and necro-celebrity through the holographic projections of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, often h...

Very happy to share that my (our!) article

“The Holographic Atatürk: From Commemorative Pageantry to Technological Resurrection” has just been published in Celebrity Studies.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

The seminar presentation originally scheduled for November 7 is rescheduled to November 14, 3-5 pm due to double booking.

06.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For more details, visit the NMC event page (www.nmc.utoronto.ca/events).

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Gimmicks of War Abstract. This essay examines three pivotal instances where late Ottoman maps served as “gimmicks of war.” Forgotten and reactivated, these visual artifacts gained renewed political significance years...

Good one!

27.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally in Kew! I’m a bit rusty, I hadn’t imagined the journey would be this tiring. Still, the neighbourhood makes it all fade away.

27.10.2025 06:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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06.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One Thousand and One Kisses is available for order on Amazon. Please use the links below to find your local Amazon marketplace. We'd appreciate it if you could recommend the title to your university or local library.
translationattached.com/available-now/

06.10.2025 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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First published in Istanbul by Amedi Publishing House in weekly installments between 1923 and 1924, these anonymously written stories blend humor and eroticism, offering saucy examples of early twentieth century romantic comedy.

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Yeni Sabah, 17 Temmuz 1949.

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Atlı Żābıṭaya Rehber - İbrāhīm Ḫalīl. Maḥmūd Beğ Maṭbaʿası Dersaʿādet, 1327 [1911–12].

06.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

İsmail Habib Sevük: “Eyvah, frenklerin «nostalagie» dediği, hani osmanlıcada «dâüssıla» diye ifade edilip, öz türkçemizde «yurdsama» diyebileceğimiz hastalık demek pehlivanımızı da sarmış.”

Cumhuriyet, 27 Şubat 1947, 2.

06.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Büyük Gazete, no. 42 (15 Sonteşrin 1935).

06.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sünnet üzerine N. Kip: “Türk; duru düşünceli, yuvarlak kafalı kuzeysel bir kara insandır, Türkün uygur ve realist ruhuna ve maddiyeci historisine uymıyan bu kanlı ve cahılâne teamülü devlet yasak etmelidir.”
Kültür, no. 40 (15 Temmuz 1935).

06.10.2025 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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