Overview
- Did converts face any social repercussions in Ottoman Empire?
- What led to the collapse of the Mamluk sultanate in 1517?
- How many ships were in the Ottoman navy during the reign of Suleiman the magnificent?
- Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
- How were slaves treated in the Ottoman Empire?
- What do we really know about the capture of Philadelphia?
- Why does the Ottoman Empire still matter?
- How did the Ottoman Empire capture Constantinople?
- Ottoman Empire & Alcohol
- Ottoman Empire & Homosexuality
Modern Turkish History and Ataturk
- The Cyprus Conflict of 1974: Why was the Turkish invasion so successful?
- Kemalism
- Ottoman Empire & Jewish People
- How did Ataturk afford his reforms?
- What is Turkey’s motive in intervening in Cyprus, why does it claim the island?
- Why did Turkey protect Greece from Bulgaria in 1940?
- Why did Turkey not go to fascism (unlike Germany, Italy)?
Late Ottoman Empire
- What did Russia hope to gain from the WW1 (Ottomans)?
- Did the Ottomans know they were ‘the sick man of Europe’?
- Did the various Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire identify at any point as Ottoman?
- Why were the Ottomans accepted as Caliphs?
- What impact did the German general Liman von Sanders have on the Ottoman Empire?
- What was the attitude of Turkey/Ottoman Empire toward communism in the early 1920s?
Armenian Genocide (along with others)
- How far involved was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the ethnic cleansing of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians?
- Was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the Armenian genocide?
- What exactly was the causes of the Armenian genocide?
- Sayfo
- Books on the Armenian Genocide
- Ancient Greek Texts in Early Ottoman Constantinople (Prof. Kukjalko)
- New Science in the Ottoman Empire (Prof. Yıldırım)