Mesut Uyar
@mesutuyar.bsky.social
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 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
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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archive.org/details/tari...
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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
archive.org/details/tari...
archive.org/details/tari...
If you are planning to visit Gallipoli/Dardanelles here is the official guidebook of the Directorate of Gallipoli Historical Site
Enjoy
canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr/data/uploads...
Enjoy
canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr/data/uploads...
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
If you are planning to visit Gallipoli/Dardanelles here is the official guidebook of the Directorate of Gallipoli Historical Site
Enjoy
canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr/data/uploads...
Enjoy
canakkaletarihialan.gov.tr/data/uploads...
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.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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.
Türk Savaş Çalışmaları Dergisinin (Turkish Journal of War Studies) yani sayısı çıktı iyi okumalar.
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tws/i...
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tws/i...
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Türk Savaş Çalışmaları Dergisinin (Turkish Journal of War Studies) yani sayısı çıktı iyi okumalar.
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tws/i...
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tws/i...
#BargainHunting Sir Hew Strachan's first published book for a fiver. Not bad.
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#BargainHunting Sir Hew Strachan's first published book for a fiver. Not bad.
Common phobia in Australia
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Common phobia in Australia
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.
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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.
My book review of Ian Burns's work Float Planes over the Desert.
littlegully.com/blog/when-a-...
littlegully.com/blog/when-a-...
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My book review of Ian Burns's work Float Planes over the Desert.
littlegully.com/blog/when-a-...
littlegully.com/blog/when-a-...
This was a real enterpreneurship. Opening bookshop/newsstand with the NAAFI for the British troops in Turkey during the Allied occupation.
October 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This was a real enterpreneurship. Opening bookshop/newsstand with the NAAFI for the British troops in Turkey during the Allied occupation.
#BookoftheDay Casual reading. Breaking bad Nazi style.
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
#BookoftheDay Casual reading. Breaking bad Nazi style.
Thanks to current developments I have started to understand and appreciate Caligula and his times more.
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thanks to current developments I have started to understand and appreciate Caligula and his times more.
See this one. Again Fossati but this time on top of Aya Sofia
September 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
See this one. Again Fossati but this time on top of Aya Sofia
Come across this pamphlet of Nesta Webster. She had all the ingredients to be an ideal right wing social media troll.
September 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Come across this pamphlet of Nesta Webster. She had all the ingredients to be an ideal right wing social media troll.
I have no idea when did I copy Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS fame's ex libris. Any way the design gives an idea about the character of Wild Bill
September 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I have no idea when did I copy Wild Bill Donovan of the OSS fame's ex libris. Any way the design gives an idea about the character of Wild Bill
While scrolling through Ottoman documents I usually come across idiosyncratic documents. See an example it has an interesting letterhead but content is simply useless
September 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
While scrolling through Ottoman documents I usually come across idiosyncratic documents. See an example it has an interesting letterhead but content is simply useless
Scrolling the pages of a high school textbook. And it starts with a claim that the Australians helped 'liberate' Palestine from the Ottoman Empire.
I don't know what to say about this 'liberation'.
I don't know what to say about this 'liberation'.
September 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Scrolling the pages of a high school textbook. And it starts with a claim that the Australians helped 'liberate' Palestine from the Ottoman Empire.
I don't know what to say about this 'liberation'.
I don't know what to say about this 'liberation'.