Mesut Uyar

It should be well loved and well worn

Out of boredom I have started reading AJP Taylor's "The Origins of the SWW" again. His books always give surprising pearls as labelling the First World War as "the war of thr Turkish succession".

Now we have false parasols

"Do you know where the birth place of sectarianism?"

Time to discuss the modern/current meaning of treason. The war in Iran puts treason at front and forces us to consider what is treason and what is not and of course for whom.

#BookoftheDay My expectations are high

While reading the book I came across this interesting pet project of Jordanian terrorist Zarqawi drawing America to a war with Iran. He wanted create an ideal atmosphere for al Qaida to florish.

#BookoftheDay Started reading Warrick's book. I hope no book like this will be written for Iran also.

According to BBC's Russian language book speaking Russian will help you in former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine. What do you think?

Deputy chief of army warns ADF has become 'detached' from violent nature of war Major General Chris Smith delivered an excoriating address to a major conference last year, declaring "managerial and advertising logic and double speak" had "polluted" the military.

I hear you mate!
"Deputy Chief of Army Major General Chris Smith has taken aim at the "unavoidable creep of managerial speak" within the Australian Defence Force."
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I am scanning through New York Times archive and coming across interesting and weird news and comments. One of these about the opening of Turkish Grand Assembly in Ankara. Journalists anxiously labelled it as a Soviet and the whole affair as a revolt

Thanks to Times Higher Education's new geographic region, Central Eurasia, Turkish universities finally made it to the top.
www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univer...

Scoop news from New York Times, Dec 1919.
"Crown Enver Pasha King of Kurdistan" 😎

Mum dibine ışık vermez. Çoğu fotoğrafçının az fotoğrafı vardır. Eskiden sadık gölge diyorlarmış fotoğrafçının varlığını sadece bazı fotoğraflarda kendisini gösteren gölgesinden dolayı.

It is pity that Allen and Muratoff's Caucasian Battlefields book covers after 1828

RIP

I am afraid there isn't any new books about Ottoman related Napoleonic wars.

Our inky mushroom population

The list is long.
There is one mistake that puzzles me (p.412). Baer is the author of a book about Dönmes (Jewish converts) and apparently does not know its slang meaning. It doesn't mean "passive homesexual" it means "trans woman".

Thanks. Well this book is very general not providing details wargamers are looking for. My other two books better in details.

Well I would advise Ed Erickson's works and some of mine (the Ottoman Army and the FWW; The Ottoman Defence against the Anzac Landing).

For example no Hamidiye officer ever sent to Russia (p. 373). There were a few Ottoman officers who were graduates of different Russian military schools. But they had attended these schools as Russian subjects and later migrated to the the Ottoman Empire and became Ottoman officers.

Just finished reading Baer's The Ottomans. Overall it is a good book but as a military historian I got surprised by the amount of mistakes and misunderstandings about the Ottoman military. Not to mention other factual errors.

Strangest mosque building ever. Salonika New (Hamidiye) Mosque opened in 1904. Italian architect Poselli. Current and old photos.

No comment 😎

medieval worlds • no. 23 • 2025 A truly sensational find is presented in volume 23 of Medieval Worlds: a newly discovered Christian world chronicle in Arabic, which Adrian C. Pirtea examines in a preliminary case study. We furthermo...

An important discovery. A Christian chronicle covering critical years of early Islam. Fingers crossed.
medievalworlds.net?arp=0x004102d6

Of course a consumer catalog that advertise secret society tokens should sell weapons and all sorts of ammunition

Good to hear this. If the subject within my area of expertise I am at your service

Time to write a new book

What a joke? Back in the 1900s secret society members purchased their emblems from consumer catalogs.