Popular history

İlber Ortaylı (1947–2026): The Historian, the Media Celebrity, and the Ideologue

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I was once a trainer in an EU-funded project, and I spent a few hours with Prof. Ortaylı in 2015 in one of its workshops. I was really anxious about whether he would make fun of me, but he did not (!). According to the project page of RUMVADER (Cemaat Vakıfları Temsilciliği), it was the … Read more

Yesterday’s toll in Turkey’s pressure on media: NTV Tarih Magazine closed, Journalists, columnists in Akşam fired…

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Columnists fired as daily Akşam gets new chief At least four columnists have been fired so far from Turkish daily Akşam, days after Mehmet Ocaktan was assigned as the editor-in-chief NTV Tarih, Popular History Magazine, Closed The administration of NTV Tarih, a popular history magazine in Turkey, closed down the publication as it was preparing … Read more