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(PDF) The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History PDF | This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centred on war and society. It covers much neglected... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

For the last 3 years I have dedicated most of my time to organise and edit books. One book has been published and two in the process. But unfortunately labour intensive editorship does not get much academic credits. Time to focus on writing for indexed journals.
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CNN style presentation.

Secrets of a 10,000-year-old village uncovered | CNN CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz visits the ancient sites of Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe in southeastern Turkey — two groundbreaking archaeological digs that are rewriting what we know about early human civiliza...

"The ancient sites of Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe in Turkey are rewriting what we know about early human civilization. Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, these settlements may mark the moment humans first began living together in permanent, peaceful communities."
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Sadık Emre Karakuş ve Murat Babuçoğlu'nun yayına hazırladığı ama basıldığı halde TOBB'un bir türlü dağıtmadığı Tarih-i Cevdet internet arşivine yüklenmiş. Tavsiye ederim indirip okuyun. Çalışmalarınızda kullanın
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(PDF) The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History PDF | This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centred on war and society. It covers much neglected... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

For the last 3 years I have dedicated most of my time to organise and edit books. One book has been published and two in the process. But unfortunately labour intensive editorship does not get much academic credits. Time to focus on writing for indexed journals.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If you are planning to visit Gallipoli/Dardanelles here is the official guidebook of the Directorate of Gallipoli Historical Site
Enjoy
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I was not aware that Asimov had been inspired by Tamerlane to create the infamous Mule character of the Foundation series. Though I knew the relation between Bizantine General Belisarius and Bel Riose.

Good ol' Tom!

(PDF) Ottoman Strategy and War Aims during the First World War PDF | The Ottoman decision for war, followed by the Ottoman navy’s fateful naval attack on the Russian Black Sea ports on 29 October 1914 has attracted... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Although this chapter was published in 2015, the publisher recently let me share it. So here it is
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Me, me, me!

Not Ottoman. Should be an old British cruiser

Türk Savaş Çalışmaları Dergisinin (Turkish Journal of War Studies) yani sayısı çıktı iyi okumalar.
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FYI "Liva (or Liwa)" means Major General in Arabic

#BargainHunting Sir Hew Strachan's first published book for a fiver. Not bad.

Common phobia in Australia

And both sides were turned out to be losers in the end. Instead of fighting they should have cooperate more.

There are wonderful graffitis of prisoner ambassadors on the walls of Yedikule including a Venetian diplomat who spent 27 years in captivity.

Miralay “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu yıkılıp Türkiye Cumhuriyeti doğarken ortaya çıkan kahramanlardan biri de Şefi...

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Yayınlanmasını uzun süredir beklediğim Şefik Aker biyografisi sonunda satışta. Haluk Oral hocanın titiz araştırması ihmal edilmiş bir kahramanı gün yüzüne çıkarmaktadır. Hocanın arşivinden belge ve fotoğraflar ise kitabın değerini arttırmaktadır. Hassaten tavsiye ederim.

Rewriting history: damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome – Smarthistory There are many examples of damnatio memoriae throughout the history of the Roman Republic and Empire.

As always the Romans invented a name for this "damnatio memoriae"
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Recycling controversial Civil War statues
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The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-... On the morning of 25th June 1829, a young Russian poet gazed with awe at the supposedly impregnable Ottoman fortress of Kars, which had been captured by the Russian Army of the Caucasus just a year...

Our (I & Alexander Morrison) article on Kars is out.
The stronghold of strongholds: Kars and the Russian military, 1807-1878
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Üsteğmen Harb ve Gümüş Liyakat madalyalı. Üniforma Alman üniformadan tadil. Metal düğmeler Alman. Üniformaya bakarak Romanyadan Azerbaycana gelen 15. Tümen personeli olmalı diye tahmin yürütüyorum

+ the trill of finding secret burials in the garden

Don't think it was Batman (or the village of İluh). The oil was discovered in 1946 though research had started a few years earlier. Could it be an oil other than petrol? Such as olive oil?

My book review of Ian Burns's work Float Planes over the Desert.
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This was a real enterpreneurship. Opening bookshop/newsstand with the NAAFI for the British troops in Turkey during the Allied occupation.

Turkish Military Sociology: Exploring the Evolution of an Early Starter but Latecomer - Barış Ateş, 2025 This article explores the reasons for the late development of Turkish military sociology. Although the relationship between the Turkish military and society has...

The Turkish adventure with military sociology
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#BookoftheDay Casual reading. Breaking bad Nazi style.