İLBER ORTAYLI

The US and genocide İLBER ORTAYLI

The US and genocide

Without a doubt, U.S. President Joe Biden’s statement after the elections and his declaration of the official recognition of the genocide is not something to be put aside, ignored, or receive with silence. However, since the murder of our young diplomat Bahadır Demir by an old Armenian in the 1970s, a serious examination and education on Armenian research and policy has still not been carried out.

May 02 2021
Dodecanese Islands and a misinterpreted document İLBER ORTAYLI

Dodecanese Islands and a misinterpreted document

In 1934, Turkish foreign policy was in grave tension. The Non-Aggression Pact, proposed to the Soviet Union, was hanging for Stalin’s vote, rather than his open veto. It was clear that similar agreements with France and England would not mean a lot back then.

August 26 2020
Will Turkish language be homebound in Kirkuk İLBER ORTAYLI

Will Turkish language be homebound in Kirkuk?

Today’s Iraq is one of the countries that have emerged at the end of the 400-year-old Ottoman Empire rule after the First World War.

March 26 2017
Architects, Italians, and the attack on young women in Istanbul İLBER ORTAYLI

Architects, Italians, and the attack on young women in Istanbul

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has unfortunately adopted a stance that will damage its respectability.

March 14 2017
The identity of a mature Turkey İLBER ORTAYLI

The identity of a mature Turkey

Istanbul became the junction point on international waterways in the 19th century. Before anything else, the Suez Canal had drawn a portion of the heavy traffic in the northeast Atlantic to this region

February 26 2017
How are we going to look Aleppo in the face İLBER ORTAYLI

How are we going to look Aleppo in the face?

Watching the evening news on television, I saw the U.S. Permanent Representative in the U.N., Samantha Power, in the carefree and relaxed mood of a university campus student, attacking Iran, Russia and Syria

December 18 2016
Istanbul still doesn’t have a city museum İLBER ORTAYLI

Istanbul still doesn’t have a city museum

Where does Turkey’s history of modern museums start? If we exempt the works sold from the Ottoman palaces, it can be said that the Hagia İrene Church within Istanbul’s Topkapı Palace was the first place where it started.

October 16 2016
How did the Ottoman army proceed in Syria 500 years ago İLBER ORTAYLI

How did the Ottoman army proceed in Syria 500 years ago?

Selim I (Yavuz Sultan Selim) entered Aleppo on Aug. 24-25, 1516, with, according to certain historians, an 80,000-man army, after beating the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri’s army of the same size

August 28 2016
What to do with the Kuleli Military High School building İLBER ORTAYLI

What to do with the Kuleli Military High School building?

It was September of 1859 when Istanbul was shaken. As far as we know, a rebellion was about to erupt in Istanbul. In the handwritten leaflets, the flugblatt as the Germans called them before printing machines were invented, it was claimed that “the sultan had become an infidel” and they were calling for a return to sharia law

August 14 2016