Just published. A Turkish-language history of the Soviet Union, written with @onurisci.bsky.social. Somewhat in the way that Dan Diner asked in Cataclysms how 20th-century history might be told looking out from Odesa, we approach Soviet history with Turkish connections/comparisons in mind.

Has anyone written on Donald Mills's visit to Turkey in 1978? (2/2)

At the end of the storm...

#LFC #Liverpool

I'm so glad Santa is a red.

Ankara this morning.

It is! A classroom:

Last week, I was fortunate to be able to present my work in the old Sümerbank headquarters in central Ankara. (Sümerbank played a key role in financing the factories built with Soviet assistance that are one of the main stories in my book). Designed by Martin Elsaesser (b. Tübingen), late 1930s.

Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.