Ryan Gingeras: 3 books
Sorrowful Shores
Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. During the decade leading up to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence. Sorrowful Shores presents a...
Fall of the Sultanate
The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning the early twentieth century. This...
by Ryan Gingeras
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey explores the history of organized crime in Turkey and the roles which gangs and gangsters have played in the making of the Turkish state and Turkish politics. Turkey's underworld, which has been at the heart of several devastating scandals over...