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Mesut Uyar

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Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Oct 18

As this is my first post, let me introduce myself. I'm a military historian specialized on late Ottoman and modern Turkish military history. I've published 4 books in English 6 in Turkish and numerous articles and book chapters

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 3d

Is it just only me who find British Egypt officials' former dress funny?

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 4d

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?

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 5d

My book review of Ian Burns's work Float Planes over the Desert.
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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 6d

This was a real enterpreneurship. Opening bookshop/newsstand with the NAAFI for the British troops in Turkey during the Allied occupation.

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 8d

The Turkish adventure with military sociology
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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...

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 13d

#BookoftheDay Casual reading. Breaking bad Nazi style.

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 14d

Yeni yazım. İyi okumalar
"Askeri teknoloji sadece silah sistemleri demek değildir"
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Prof. Dr. Mesut Uyar | Askeri teknoloji sadece silah sistemleri demek değildir

Ukrayna savaşı, modern askeri teknolojinin önemini kimsenin inkâr edemeyeceği bir şekilde ortaya koydu. Dünya kamuoyu savaşın başladığı Şubat 2022'den bu yana televizyon, bilgisayar ve akıllı telefon ...

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks to current developments I have started to understand and appreciate Caligula and his times more.

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 21d

Araplar Mevlud der. Türkler için ince L den sonra U demek zor. İster istemez U yumşuyor Ü ye dönüşüyor.

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 25d

Tolstoy'un Diriliş (Воскресение) romanı. Yaşar Kemal'in Al Gözüm Seyreyle Salih'i. Jules Verne'in Dünyanın Hakimi (Le Maitre Du Monde).

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26d

See this one. Again Fossati but this time on top of Aya Sofia

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26d

France; the new sick man of Europe.
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Why France is at risk of becoming the new sick man of Europe

The country is at the conjuncture of several crises at once - but is it fair to blame Macron for 'this shipwreck'?

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 26d

Interesting.
"Trump admin has been quietly pushing to retake Afghan base from the Taliban for months, sources say"
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Trump admin has been quietly pushing to retake Afghan base from the Taliban for months, sources say | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the mat...

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · 27d

"20,000 members of the American Nazi Party once rallied in Madison Square Garden. Could it happen again?"
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20,000 members of the American Nazi Party once rallied in Madison Square Garden. Could it happen again?

On October 10, The Atlantic premiered 'A Night at the Garden', an unsettling seven minutes and five seconds long video made of film footage that American documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry had accid...

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Sep 15

Well try publisher's website then. Click PREVIEW PDF tab at the right
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The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History | Mesut Uyar, Edward

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society. It covers much neglected conflicts and wars

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Sep 15

Not Lemnos Island but Imbros Island. I have checked from the writings of Australian official war correspondent and historian Charles Bean. He wrote of it as "a complete fake. It was taken at Imbros. The Australians are from the Field Bakery, and the Turk is a prisoner from the camp there."

Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Sep 15

You can download and read my new edited book The Routledge Handbook of Modern Turkish History from the link below

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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...

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Sep 13

As far as I know he was killed by some Communist militants but ideology did not play much role. It was a combination of problem with landlord and prostitution