Reviewed by Ozge Taylan

There are few subjects that are so absorbing as names and identity, and these are basic tools for the historian though they are complex and controversial. Now in his 84th year, the eminent scholar Bernard Lewis has spent his life dealing with history, religion, culture, language and terminology, in a region where all these are as fraught as anywhere. He has...

Reviewed by Nermin Aydemir

The Holocaust has been accepted as one of the most, to many the most, disastrous happening(s) in the history of humankind. As it is known, for about 6 millions of Jews were killed under the rule of the third Reich in the mid 1900’s. Goldhagen’s book of Hitler’s willing Executioners is one of the most thorough studies in this field. However,...

Reviewed by Arda Bilgen

Iranian Revolution was one of the most significant events ever witnessed. The revolution changed the regime of a big country and affected the region as it affected the whole world. The regional and global impact of Ayatollah Khomeini was so intense that the Islamic movements in Iran made particular regional countries and Western countries worry. The future of the alternating Iran...

Reviewed by Nermin Aydemir

'…The restructuring of production, new communications technology and the revolution of information systems all make possible a drastically reordered metropolis, and ultimately a new international settlement order. However, these phenomena are still very limited. With over half of the world living in poverty, a fourth living in housing unfit for human habitation, and millions still dying from starvation, such future...

Reviewed by Irem Güney

Undoubtedly, the Holocaust is the most brutal crime against humanity in the twentieth century. As Recep Peker stated in 1947, “Anti Semitism will remain the shame of the twentieth century”.

No other statement would be able to indicate the extents of the tragedy. Apparently, Stanford Shaw thought the same way and chose these lines to end his book “Turkey and the Holocaust”.

Stanford...