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The Invention Of... Turkey Episodes

    Ottoman or Turk

    4/4 A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny.

    A Balancing Act

    3/4 Misha Glenny on the birth of Turkey from the ruins of the old Ottoman Empire in 1923.

    The Military

    2/4 East versus west, secular versus religious, how the empire came to the point of collapse.

    The Ottomans: East or West

    1/4 Misha Glenny in Istanbul on the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic