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A Muslim Weimar? Istanbul between the Wars

One reading of modern Turkish history focuses on the country's perpetual race to catch up with Europe. In the often forgotten world of interwar Istanbul, Muslims were the powerful hosts and Europeans the unwanted migrants.

Date & Time

Monday
Mar. 4, 2013
4:00pm – 5:30pm ET

Location

4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

One reading of modern Turkish history focuses on the country's perpetual race to catch up with Europe. Yet in the interwar period Europeans came to Turkey not as bearers of civilization but as refugees: White Russians defeated by the Bolsheviks, German professors dismissed by the Nazis, Jews seeking safe passage to Palestine, and many others. In the often forgotten world of interwar Istanbul, Muslims were the powerful hosts and Europeans the unwanted migrants.

Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (2011), which received a National Jewish Book Award, as well as histories of the Black Sea and the Caucasus. His current project, to be published by W. W. Norton in 2014, is on the rise of Turkey and the transformation of Istanbul.

Reservations requested because of limited seating:
HAPP@wilsoncenter.org or 202-691-4166

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Charles King

Charles King

Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University
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History and Public Policy Program

The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.  Read more

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