Recommended Readings

Journals

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2020): The Turkish Armenian Historical Controversy: How to Name the Events of 1915 [pdf]

  • Admir Mulaosmanović (2019): Islam and Muslims in Greater Serbian Ideology: The Origins of an Antagonism and the Misuse of the Past. [pdf]

  • Brad Dennis (2019): Armenians and the Cleansing of Muslims; 1878–1915: Influences from the Balkans. [pdf]

  • Mehmet Arısan (2019): Violence as a Means of Nation-Building: The Case of the Balkans (1890–1913). [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2019): Understanding Turkish secularism in the 21th century: a contextual roadmap, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz & Hakan Erdagöz (2019): The Tragedy of the Ottomans: Muslims in the Balkans and Armenians in Anatolia, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz & Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (2019): Turkish secularism and Islam under the reign of Erdoğan, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2018) A Framework for Understanding the Intra-Islamist Conflict Between the AK Party and the Gülen Movement, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 19:1, 11-32. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2011) Contours of a Scholarship on Armenian-Turkish Relations, Middle East Critique, 20:3, 231-251. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Nihat Ali Özcan, Turkish Democracy and the Kurdish Question. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi (2013) War and Nationalism. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2014) Orientalism, the ‘Terrible Turk’ and Genocide, Middle East Critique, 23:2, 111,-126. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2011) Contours of Scholarship on Armenian-Turkish Relations, Middle East Critique, 20:3, 231-251. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2016) Social and Intellectual Origins of Neo-Ottomanism, Die Welt des Islams, 56, 438-465 [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2018) A Framework for Understanding the Ultra-Islamist Conflict between the AK Party and the Gulen Movement; Politics, Religion, & Ideology 19:1, 11-32. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2016) The Turkish Coup Attempt: The Gulen Movement vs The State, Middle East Policy, 23:4 [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2016) “Social and Intellectual Origins of Neo-Ottomanism: Searching for a Post-National Vision,” Die Welt Des Islams, 56: 3-4: 438-465. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Nihat Ali Ozcan (2015) “Democracy and the Kurdish Question,” Middle East Policy, 22: 4: 73-87. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Feroz Ahmad (2015) “Introduction” in eds. M. Hakan Yavuz with Feroz Ahmad, War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press), pp. 1-47.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2015) “A Topography of Positions in the Turkish-Armenian Debate,” in eds. M. Hakan Yavuz with Feroz Ahmad, War and Collapse: World War I and the Ottoman State (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press), pp. 541-569.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2014) “Orientalism, the ‘Terrible Turk’ and Genocide.” Middle East Critique Vol. 23, No. 2: 11-126.

  • Isa Blumi and Hakan Yavuz (2013) “Introduction: Lasting Consequences of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913),: In eds. M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi, eds., War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, and Their Sociopolitical Consequences (Salt Lake City: University of Utah), pp. 1-30.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz (2013) “Warfare and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars as a Catalyst of Homogenization.” In ed. M. Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi, eds., War and Nationalism The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, and Their Sociopolitical Consequences (Salt Lake City: University of Utah), pp. 31-84.

  • (2011) “Contours of Scholarship on Armenian-Turkish Relations,” Middle East Critique, 20:3: 231-251.

  • “Islam without Shari’a,” in ed. Rober Hefner, Shari‘a Politics Islamic Law and Society in the Modern World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), pp.146- 178.

  • Peter Sluglett, “Introduction: Laying the Foundations for Future Instability.” In ed. M. Hakan Yavuz and Peter Sluglett, War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011), pp. 1-16.

  • “The Transformation of Empire through Wars and Reforms: Integration vs. Oppression,” in ed. M. Hakan Yavuz and Peter Sluglett, War and Diplomacy: The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2011), pp. 17-55.

Op-Eds

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “ Self-Hating Turks and the Genocide Debate,” Daily Sabah, February 6, 2019. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “Erdogan’s Ottomania,” Boston Review, July 12, 2018 [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Mujeeb R. Khan, “Turkish coup, Muslim democracy and Western bad faith, June 2016. [pdf]

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “15 Temmuz darbe tesebbusu uzerine,” Turkiye Gunlugu No. 127 (Summer 2017): 93-107.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “Robert Fisk ve Tehlirian Davasi,” Turkiye Gunlugu No. 126 (Spring 2016): 96-99.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “Interview: Turkey’s Armenian Question,”

  • M. Hakan Yavuz, “Mulakaat: Ermeni Meselesindeki Tartismalar,” Turkiye Gunlugu, No. 121 (Winter 2015): 8-24.

  • M. Hakan Yavuz and Mujeeb R. Khan, “Turkey Asserts Its Role in the Middle East,” The New York Times, 11 February 2015. [pdf]

  • “Sargsyan’s letter to President Erdoğan: Armenia’s imagined history” Daily Sabah, 20 January 2015.

  • “Orientalism: “Terrible Turk” becomes a “genocidal Turk,” Today’s Zaman, 14 January 2014.

  • Umut Uzer, “Ermeni Meselesi, Devlet ve Aydinlar,” Zaman, 22-23 February 2013.