The Peace At Home Podcast: Recent Episodes
Peace At Home Podcast
Ever wanted to learn more about the wonderful and wild country of Turkey? Well you’re in luck, come and listen as our Turkish host Sinan tries to explain to our two very British co-hosts exactly how this country ended up being the way it is. This podcast will attempt to equip you and our co-hosts with enough knowledge to confidently say they understand Turkey before the 2023 Presidential elections occurring during the country’s centenary.
Hello all, this is the (for now) final episode of Peace at Home we're planning on doing for a while. For reasons which are explained in episode, but mainly due to fatigue and a sense that the project itself has run its course with the local elections in Turkey resulting in a rare AKP national vote loss. We talk about this and other things, including the fact that all of our bonuses over on our Patreon will be made available for free members on May 1st. So if you are a Patron our sincere thanks for your support, but you'll have a couple of months now to change to a free membership if you so choose and the archive will be available to you forever. Thank you all for coming along with us for this, from Sinan, Jamie and Ben (I assume, they've been away for a while).
Also our music is by Jordan. Bye forever!
We're back in the guyology department, talking about Dogu Perincek, the Turkish George Galloway. With our resident Scotland is England understander David from Praxiscast.
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We're joined by David from Praxiscast as we're back for real (?) and we get back into the swing of the notoriously cool and fine 80s in Turkey and kick things off by talking about the BBC making the most poorly disguised propaganda in history.
The YouTube video we talk about in the beginning
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We're back from the yawning abyss of technical difficulties (thank you for your patience) and it's bonus time once again. We're joined once more by our good friend Rosencreutz and this time the topic of discussion is Turkish videogame Mount and Blade. And alcopops. And et cetera.
Get more Rosencreutz here: https://www.youtube.com/@Rosencreutzzz
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We're joined by Rosencreutz as we talk about one of the unintended consequences of the 1980 military coup: the Kurdish liberation movement's modern armed struggle.
Find Rosencreutz on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Rosencreutzzz
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We're joined by Rob from Praxiscast for a bonus episode that definitely did not go off the rails as we tried to talk about a tech bro who got an extremely harsh (and deserved) sentence from a Turkish court.
If you want the full episode of this head on over to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
We're joined by Robert Praxiscast Esquire to discuss the 1983 election in all it's normal glory. Also a new guy we all hate dropped.
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We're talking about coups yet again (an occupational hazard, admittedly) but this time we're joined by the excellent Juliet Jacques!
Check our Juliet's work at https://julietjacques.com/
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We discuss the incredibly low rent political corruption of New York's mayor.
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It's your regular crew of Sinan and Jamie talking about the 1980 military coup, the lead up to it and how ridiculous some of the planning for it got.
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We were joined by Jack Frayne-Reid of Reel Politik fame to talk about Turkey's historic relationship with Israel and to talk about Mike Gapes. I mean what did you really expect? If you want the full episode of this head on over to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Check out Reel Politik here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast
We're joined by Jack Frayne-Reid of ReelPolitik (https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast) to discuss some localised communism.
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We're joined by Liam and Rocz of Well There's Your Problem to talk about a dam in everyone's favourite part of Turkey.
Listen to WTYP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg
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We're joined by special guests Liam and Rocz from Well There's Your Problem as we cover the Taksim Square Massacre of 1977.
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The preview of our bonus episode where we tried to explore our new favourite Turkish guy, Muharrem Ince, also known as Mince.
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Our music is by our good friend Jordan. Thanks Jordan!
Cast:
Sinan
Jamie
(Ben is on hiatus due to Real Job)
We cover some relevant stuff we've missed or skimmed over previously in our discussion of political violence in 70s Turkey.
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Our music is by our good friend Jordan. Thanks Jordan!
Cast:
Sinan
Jamie
(Ben is on hiatus due to Real Job)
The preview of our bonus episode on Turkey's 1968 generation with our good friend Lilah!
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Our music is by our good friend Jordan. Thanks Jordan!
Cast: Sinan Jamie (Ben is on hiatus due to Real Job)
Join us to hear all about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, with special guest Lilah!
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Our music is by our good friend Jordan. Thanks Jordan!
Cast:
Sinan
Jamie
(Ben is on hiatus due to Real Job)
A preview of our bonus episode where Sinan and Jamie decide to tackle the big issue, why did Disney think it was a good idea to make a high production value Ataturk show?
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We're back and we're talking about coups and coup related shenanigans.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we finally meet the Communists head on over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
(everyone's link is dead because twitter sucks lol)
It's the bonus preview! We talk about various groups of fine people with admirable politics. Also the Fonz.
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It's only a coup if it's from the coup region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling intervention. Or at least that's what some people would like to believe about the 1971 Coup By Memorandum in Turkey. So join Sinan and Jamie as they try to answer the question on whether this was a coup or not and whether anyone was shocked by it.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we finally meet the Communists head on over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
It's the bonus preview! This time we actually managed to stay on topic for most of the episode so you get a slightly tighter preview as we begin to dive into the world of Turkey's very own Years of Lead, the 60s 70s and 80s and we begin to meet the various sides involved in the conflicts to come in the main series of episodes.
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We are so back, this episode we try to build a backdrop to the 1971 coup without Jamie who we will have to help catch up next episode. Get used to these becoming backgrounds for coups because oh boy, Turkey has an awful lot of them. We also get familiar with why exactly Turkey's political sphere begins to break down in the late 60s and early 70s.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we begin to meet some of the players in the chaos of the 70s.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Ben - @Patricipacion
The Preview for our new bonus episode ostensibly about taking us back to the 70s, but to be honest a lot of it is about submarines. We do talk about a particular archived BBC News segment that is quite interesting in parts, but you know, we're back!
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
We're finally back! And we have a whole second round of the election to react to and we had to get Ben back to speed. So enjoy our glorious return to the podcasting dojo with our usual detours from the subject, but enjoy someone's fresh reactions to the catastrophe that unfolded during both rounds of the election and some thoughts on the aftermath.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where Sinan takes us back to the 70s.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Sinan and Jamie are joined by James off of Praxiscast (@anarchonbury) to talk about the first round of the 2023 election.
It's our (admittedly slightly out of date) election preview episode, where we begin by looking at the election ads from some of the parties, try to set you all up with the information you need for election and take a look at the 2016 failed coup and the constitutional referendum that followed.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the previous bonus episode where we took a look at the man who might become Turkey's next president after the elections on Sunday, head over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Come learn about a guy we found.
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We take a dive into the world of Turkish megaprojects especially the Istanbul Canal an idea that some of us still can't believe they're actually doing. If you enjoyed the preview and want the whole thing make sure you're on the Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Continuing with our special "modern" episodes in the run up to the election, we cover the period of 2013-2015 a period where the wheels seemed to begin coming off the AKP, with Gezi Park, a corruption scandal and an election that saw them lose their majority for the first time. A lot of the seeds of their political vulnerability were planted in this period and we take a good look at them.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we talk about the insane megaproject the Istanbul Canal, head over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
We decided to be uncontroversial with this bonus. Instead of tackling a serious issue or a contemporary event, we just chatted about Eurovision. Or we tried to, but enjoy this preview nonetheless and if you want to find out all the other super fun stuff we managed to get into the bonus then head on over to the Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Well, it's election time in Turkey and so Sinan will be guiding us through 1970-2013 and covering absolutely everything that happened in that time in Turkey. Don't @ them if they've missed anything. Things predictably don't go according to plan, but at least it's a fun time along the way as we demonstrate why we didn't want this podcast to be topical for as long as possible.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we talk all things Eurovision (or try to, as usual), head over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
This is a preview of our bonus episode about the most 90s scandal we could find about Turkey, involving a car crash, the mafia, extrajudicial killings and of course, a former Operation Gladio operative.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Well, this would be a very good episode of almost any other podcast, so why not have a little fun before we enter election mode? We tried, very hard, to talk about the Milli Gorus political movement in Turkey which spawned several very successful political parties including the governing AKP.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we'll try (emphasis on try) to talk about a very 1990s scandal that happened in Turkey, involving everything you could want, head over to the Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
This is a preview of our bonus episode about the earthquake that hit South Eastern Turkey and Syria. The full episode features one of the strangest anecdotes any of us have told on the podcast, so be sure to get on the patreon if you can.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
We're back from half-term and do we have an interesting episode for you all. A generational changing of the guard in Turkish politics combined with the usual shenanigans, wildness and of course at least one person on the podcast getting confused about a lot of parties with the same name.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we talk about the earthquakes that have hit Turkey recently and how the government response has gone down (spoiler alert: it hasn't gone down well).
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Here's the preview of our latest bonus episode where we decide to go deep into the past (well relatively speaking) and explore the 16 Great Turkic Empires represented by the Presidential Seal of Turkey and answer the ultimate question, are they Turkic or not?
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
This Episode contains a forward about the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, if you would like to donate, the Turkish Red Crescent is taking donations here: https://www.kizilay.org.tr/Bagis/BagisYap/404/pazarcik-depremi-bagisi
This week we decide to explore some of the events of the early 60s and Turkey's brand new very stable political situation. Including two failed coups orchestrated by the same person with some help (and hindrance) from some characters we're already extremely tired of. We also go into the attempted assassination on Ismet Inonu and why it may have happened and what Cyprus has to do with it all?
The BBC News Piece About Turkey We Talk About: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X292W3aWtnw&ab_channel=BBCNewsT%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode where we play a little game with the 16 "Great Turkic Empires" as defined by the presidential seal of Turkey check out the patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
New bonus has dropped and this time it's just Sinan and Ben trying very hard to actually talk about the topic for once. This time it's the Anatolian Rock music movement and all of the influences, characters and a very cool YouTube channel related to it.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Ben - @Patricipacion
Well, that coup happened and it surgically removed the rot in Turkish politics so everything is okay now. Right? Then why are we still doing episodes? It turns out that military Juntas who pass on power to closely monitored civilian administrations struggle to actually achieve their goals and some might say the rot wasn't removed so much as dispersed and we go into that and Turkey's first coalition governments.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the iconic music genre that Sinan's parents never stopped listening to, Anatolian Rock, check out the patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Ben - @Patricipacion
The preview of our first bonus of 2023 has just dropped, as you can tell we struggled to stay on topic since we were mostly catching up after our break, but we do take care to mention Turkey's booming hair transplant industry and why the most Bald British people tend to make the trip to get it done.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Happy new year! We're back and a coup has happened. We take a look at what exactly Turkey's brand new, totally legitimate government was doing after they took control, including a series of trials that included the deposed President and Prime Minister being accused of many crimes. Mostly treason. Also we tell you who we would have play Mussolini in a film.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the popularity of going to Turkey to get hair transplants and on the one of the funniest types of hair transplant you could imagine check out the patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
Look, this bonus was meant to be about the origin of the name "Turkey" for the bird, but as you can probably tell from the tone of the preview, it got out of hand. So enjoy it and Merry Christmas from us all.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @dudliestwarrior
Ben - @Patricipacion
We're back to the history after our detour with the football. So join our full cast as we look at the late 50s in Turkey, the events that precipitated the 1960 coup including a rapid authoritarian turn from those at the top that included giving members of the Grand National Assembly some absurd powers.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on why we call that awful tasting, dry bird a "Turkey" check out the patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Ben - @Patricipacion
Join our full cast for this preview as Sinan guides them through the rise and fall of Turkey's greatest ever goal scorer internationally and in the domestic league, Hakan Şükür. As well as joining in with some poorly remembered football stories from his youth about other notable Turkish footballers who have tried to make the jump from sports to politics.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Ben - @Patricipacion
We're back and to take a break from the heavy topics we covered in the last one, we chatted about Football, its place in Turkey, in its politics and some of the wild stories of what went on in the league at various times, including match fixing scandals, unnecessary riots and rowdy Scottish people.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the story of one Turkey's greatest ever footballing products, his career after football and what he's up to now check out the patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Ben - @Patricipacion
A preview of our bonus episode on Turkish TV shows, in particular historical prestige dramas, whether they're good, bad, have a streak of clownishness in them that lingers from Turkish Star Wars and in the full episode we devolve into discussion about non-Turkish TV shows, but it's also our podcast so what are you going to do?
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
CN: If you want to skip the graphic description of the events described in this episode the timestamps are 42:43 to 44:30.
It's the middle of the 50s and the Cold War is in full swing, Turkey is safely within NATO's grasp alongside its friendly neighbour Greece, with whom it has pretty good relations. Then the issue of decolonisation and specifically Cyprus comes up, with some on the Island favouring unification or "Enosis" with Greece. This new tension offers the third (for now) Superpower in the world Britain a chance to save itself from diplomatic embarrassment which sets off a series of events that lead to tragedy in the form of the Istanbul Pogrom. Find out the ins and outs of the event, what the level of government involvement was and whether there's an Operation Gladio related twist to it all.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the wave of Turkish TV shows that took a lot of the world by storm, including one involving an Ottoman Emperor whose hobby is being a cop and slapping people.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
A preview of our bonus episode on the Ataturk cult of personality, where it came from, whether the UK has something even remotely similar and what its international impact may have been. Also a lot of off topic chat, but you knew that.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
The year is 1950 and Turkey has elected a brand new government in its first approximately fair and approximately free elections. So, the question is: what did they do exactly and were the seeds of this government eventual downfall sown in the very earliest acts they took? Come explore these questions and more with Jamie and Sinan, who are on their own on this one, having a nice time.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Ataturk cult of personality which still baffles many minds to this day, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
A preview of our bonus episode on the escapades of the Turkish Brigade in Korea and a particular focus on the anecdotes of our host's granddad who bizarrely was one of the Turkish rural soldiers who had the distinction of going off to Korea to facilitate Turkey's entry into NATO.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Special Guest Alasdair- @Ballistari
It's a slightly hungover episode, as we set the scene the for the 50s in Turkey, recap some of how we got here and we look at the innovative ways that Turkey tried to get closer to NATO. What they do might surprise you! It probably wont, but it's important for us to see what the price of being close to the western bloc may have been for Turkey who were really afraid of the Soviet Union. Also we'll be giving some background on our new main characters in government Celal Bayar and Adnan Menderes, who will have a big hand in the new Democrat Party government that will hold power throughout the decade ahead.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Korean War and Turkey's involvement in it including Sinan's granddad, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Special Guest Alasdair- @Ballistari
A preview of our bonus episode on a defamation trial that escalated into an alleged attempted coup that then very transparently became a show trial. We've got fascists, poets, torture, the looming shadow of Stalin and at least one questionable haircut.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Special Guest Connor - @connoramulhern
This week we decide to take a look at the immediate post-war situation in Turkey, a country that wasn't a belligerent in World War 2, but nonetheless managed to get access to all that precious Marshall Plan money. How did this happen? Were there conditions? Was Turkey's first actual multiparty general election rigged? All this and more answered as we chat with our guest Connor.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the Racism-Turanism Trials and the unsurprising conclusion of them, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @crimebeavis
Special Guest Connor - @connoramulhern
A preview of our bonus episode on the seemingly doomed senatorial run of Dr Mehmet Oz, possibly one of the most prominent members of the Turkish diaspora and how he's really, really messing things up in a spectacular way.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - currently between twitter accounts because he can't stop himself
Ben - @Patricipacion
It's war! But Turkey is still recovering from such a long period of turmoil, so what is the state going to do? Joining the war would invite the devastation that Ismet Inonu is so desperate to avoid, staying neutral may not be allowed by the great powers of the war. So come along to see how Turkey walked the tightrope of World War 2, how tense it is to be a geographically important neutral country and how different sections of Turkey's state had their own preference for both the outcome of the war and who they would rather join at various points.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on Dr Oz's bizarre and insanely bad run for the US Senate, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
A preview of our bonus episode on the mysterious and meme worthy engineering company Dahir Insaat, founded by a Russian man who's sick of everyone being mean about his ideas online, but also dreams of a post-apocalypse where Istanbul and Russia are the last refuges of human life? Very cool, very normal.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
Neutrality. What is it good for? Well it turns out it can be good for a lot of things as our case study today shows. We'll be heading to the inconspicuous province of Hatay, which it turns out was a major sore point for the Turkish nationalists in the early Republic and is now a sore point for Syrian nationalists. The poor place just can't win. We re-establish the background of the world situation and how Ismet Inonu took advantage of a weakened France who were willing to engage in another front in appeasement in order to ensure Turkey's neutrality in World War 2. Was Hatay really a big enough deal to change that? Well, that's for us to find out and France to never know.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on what I suspect is an elaborate money laundering scheme that involves 3D modelling software, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away (Turkish). That's right we're talking about Turkish Star Wars and why it is in fact, one of the greatest films of all time. Really there's nothing else for me to add, go listen to this preview and be inspired by a film that literally defied god.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
With Ataturk out of the picture (or at least no longer alive), Turkey finds itself at a crossroads as it often seems to. With World War 2 looming on the horizon as Chamberlain's "peace in our time" seems about as true as the idea of Peace at Home, Turkey will go on to tread the narrow path of neutrality in World War 2, but what does neutrality really entail? And who is the new ruler of Turkey Ismet Inonu really? And can neutrality be used to bolster a nationalist project while securing a new leader in place, during a period of uncertainty for everyone? We'll be answering some of these questions over this episode and the next couple (at least), in this one we mostly set the scene and look at the challenge confronting Inonu, what his conduct as Prime Minister tells us about how he'll likely meet them and engage with some Turkish mythmaking about its own role in World War 2, which is certainly interesting for a non-belligerent.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on a movie that was literally made in defiance of god himself, Turkish Star Wars (or The Man Who Saved The World, if you're so inclined), then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
A preview of our bonus episode on the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, an act carried out by what we might call a "true 70s adventurer" who was also a gun-for-hire, a bank robber, a fascist and apparently trained with the PFLP all while becoming friends with the Pope he attempted to assassinate while he was in prison. So come for a look at a real character, the conspiracy theories behind the assassination attempt and to see how the past was truly a foreign country.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
We've made it to 10 episodes! Well done us! As a way to mark this milestone we take a short break from our historical progression and decide to take a long look at the man who's looming over the narrative we've tried to construct here and who's also in our logo. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. While we reject the idea of great man history, it'd be an incomplete series on our part if we didn't look at the life of the man, how that life will have impacted his decisions as Turkey's president and what his legacy was at least in the immediate aftermath of his death.
So come with us for a journey from a cosmopolitan city in Greece, to Syria, to Libya, to the Caucuses and all the way around the Ottoman Empire and Turkey as we follow his steady rise to power.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the assassination attempt on John Paul II, the background of the assassin and why the Popemobile looks like that now, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
A preview of our bonus episode on the time a Turkish far-right paramilitary attempted to coup the government of Azerbaijan. With some surprising amounts of support (or at least tacit approval) from some very senior figures in the Turkish government. So come along for an insight into the strange and deep connection between Turkey and one of its neighbours.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Legally Distinct from Jamie - @drknifegunmd
Ben - @Patricipacion
Last time we got a little too caught up in the rebellions, so this time we went straight into the Six Arrows, what they represent, what their utility was to the Kemalists and why those arrows in particular? We especially focus on the intersection between the various six arrows, how they relate to other revolutionary/modernising projects and take a look at the global impact of Kemalist ideology, especially from some unsavoury perspectives that you might not expect.
Also we talk about Turkey's second short-lived experiment with Liberal Democracy and take a look at the first multi-party local elections that took place, which also were the first to allow women to vote and be elected in the country's history, so a lot of interesting milestones in this one!
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the time a certain far-right group that will remain nameless tried to coup the government of Azerbaijan, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
A preview of our bonus episode exploring two of the pseudoscientific (and to be honest, race science based) theories that came out of the early Turkish Republic trying to justify its place in history and in Anatolia. So come along for some Sun Language Theory and Turkish Historical Thesis action!
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
In what was meant to be a comprehensive episode covering the major political developments of the 1928-1938 period, we instead ended up getting bogged down in the detail of the Xoybun. A Kurdish pan-nationalist party that was involved in the little known breakaway Ararat Republic which was one of the more successful Kurdish attempts at independence lasting officially for four years. Even though it was never internationally recognised and didn't succeed in its ultimate aim, we find that the successes they did have were remarkable.
We also go on to talk about the Dersim Rebellion (or Dersim Genocide as it's sometimes known and we'll see why), the events leading up to it and how the program for Turkification in the south east of Turkey was often done by shows of force and was met with resistance by the local population.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on Turkey's contributions to scientific racism in the form of the Turkish Historical Thesis and Sun Language Theory, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
A Preview of our latest bonus episode, this time asking the question: what if Anonymous was Marxist-Leninist and Turkish? Well then you might get something like the group we're talking about in this episode known as RedHack. There's also an age reveal on the podcast, so if you want to know Jamie's real age head on over to the uncensored version on Patreon.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
It's time for us to return to the Reform Factory for the second half of the key Kemalist reforms during the early Republic in Turkey. We learn about some of the issues that faced the early nationalist project of the Kemalists, which included abysmally low literacy rates (though there is some dispute around that), a lack of confidence in the national identity which led to weird things like trying to replace literally every loanword in the language and how they confronted some of these problems by collaborating with the acceptable face of the far-right in early Republican Turkey. We also engage in a lot of chaos since our guest apparently brought the habits of his own podcast to us, such a good guest, bringing us a gift! We run right up to 1938, which is an important date for reasons we'll get into in a few episodes.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the very cool and good Marxist-Leninist hacker collective known as RedHack who, among other things, keep deleting people's electricity bills join our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Rob from Praxiscast - @CountRthe
A preview of our latest bonus episode featuring an unnecessarily deep dive into the concept of "Turkish Map YouTube" where we see what happens when Turkish nationalism, pan-Turkism, Turanism, neo-Ottomanism and Paradox Games collide.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
We're almost out of the 20s, I promise! Come and join us as we go through the Turkish economic response to the Great Depression and see why, despite the big man Ataturk's political and economic instincts the Turkish response seemed to go so strongly against his own stated political preferences. Including a look at the two developing factions in the CHP, the Statists and the Liberals (boo hiss) and their two primary figures Ismet Inonu and Celal Bayar (boo hiss). We also experience Sinan's brain melting as his poorly ventilated bedroom causes him to lose his mind partway through the recording.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the absolute hell scape of insanity that is Turkish Map YouTube, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
A little preview of our bonus episode on some crimes which we absolutely do not endorse, the Turkish bridge theft epidemic (okay, there were two, but come on it's fun!). Enjoy a look at similar crimes around the world as we try to figure out exactly what may have happened in the case where the criminals actually got away with it.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
David - @SanitaryNaptime
At last, we're talking about our favourite topic, Communism. Sadly Ben decided they were going to off to England and have "a nice time" there, which should be illegal, but alas isn't. So we drafted in our friend David from Praxiscast, who you should all check out, but after you get your dose of Turkish communist action. So come and join us to learn about the origins of the Turkish Communist Party (1920) and the trials (both literal and metaphorical) they went through as well as yet more assassination plots, exile and because, of course, party splits and very confusing party mergers.
Also come along to learn about the obscure pseudo-Marxist Kemalist magazine that Hearts of Iron IV brought back to prominence, the Kadro Movement (which Sinan lazily translated into The Squad, which he assures us is technically correct and not forced in order to make a joke about the Squad in America.)
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode on the apparently massive problem of bridge thefts in Turkey and a case where the bridge wasn't stolen, at least not by people... then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
David - @SanitaryNaptime
A little preview of our bonus episode on the Great Anatolia Party, also known as BAP, which had an appropriately funny logo to go along with it of a jaguar piercing a drum. Why did they have that logo? Well the truth might actually be stranger than anything you could make up.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
We track back to the glorious year, 1923, but for a good reason, last time we spoke about the reforms that Ataturk pursued and there were a lot of them. There was also a lot of politics and dare we say, a lot of interesting power dynamics for a one man regime centred on the power of one man (at least if you believe what people said). We go over the foundation of Turkey's first parliamentary opposition party, the Progressive Republican Party, the circumstances around its foundation, how its politics forced the Republican People's Party to begin to take the form of a political party rather than a national liberation movement. We investigate the Sheikh Said rebellion, which marked the first major uprising against the modern Turkish state by Kurds, with independence as an explicit goal. We also discuss the Izmir Plot, an assassination plot used to justify purges of the opposition to Mustafa Kemal, which may have been based on an entirely fake letter (stop us if you've heard this before in the 20s) and while people may dispute whether it was real or not, we'll let you decide after our chat about it.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode involving an exceptional bit of pre-online shitposting and absolute commitment to a bit as a political party, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
A little preview of our third bonus episode about the time there was a lot of controversy about the city of Batman in Turkey, which inevitably culminated in yet another episode of "Turkey's legal culture".
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
At last, the country exists, there's no more war (at least not with foreign powers) and there's a whole lot of things to fix, so let's learn a little about what needed fixing. We begin our look at Ataturk's reforms up to 1928, just before the Great Depression hits and see what exactly the Kemalists identified as their necessary early reforms. We lay out the situation Turkey was in on its independence in 1923, including the economy (there wasn't any), the literacy (there wasn't much) and the Caliph (there was one too many) and what the Kemalists proposed to do about each of the problems facing the early republic. This is more of a high level assessment of the period from 1923-1928 since, as you might guess, there were a lot of reforms, some would say too many, but that's a topic for another day.
If you want to support us and get access to the bonus episodes including the upcoming bonus episode featuring another hilarious court case involving the city of Batman, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan (who we once again forgot to thank in the actual recording, so maybe third time is the charm?) who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
A sneak peak at our second bonus episode on the time a convicted axe murderer went on a Turkish dating show and all of the chaos that ensued.
If you want access to the full bonus episode head on over to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeaceAtHome
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
The difficult second episode is here! And by the end of this episode we finally get to the stage where Turkey officially exists, but first we need to go through a series of complicated negotiations at the Conference of Lausanne. We also go over a foreign policy crisis that was so severe that the British government of the day had to resign (something that would never happen now in the UK), partially because once again Winston Churchill has messed up during a political crisis involving the Turkish straits. Sinan also talks about the only statue that actually teaches history as it relates to the infamous Population Exchange between Turkey and Greece.
If you want to support us and get access to the first bonus episode and the upcoming second bonus episode on the time an axe murderer went on a Turkish dating show, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan (who we once again forgot to thank in the actual recording, so maybe third time is the charm?) who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion
It's here at last. The Peace At Home Podcast is finally a thing. Join us on our first episode as we set out the scene in 1918 in the aftermath of World War One and see the beginning of the transformation of Turkey from the Ottoman Empire into the early Republic of Turkey. A story that includes: Descendants of Circassian pirates, generals simply refusing to arrest people, an example of why Turkish nationalist sources are to be taken with a pinch of salt and of course as with any occupation: The Brits.
If you want to support us and get access to the first bonus episode, about the time Erdogan went Gollum mode, then check out our Patreon.
Our intro music is by our good friend Jordan (who we forgot to thank in the actual recording) who is a fellow member of ALE, which you should all check out!
Our Cast:
Sinan - @TheSinanKose
Jamie - @AnxietyCowboy
Ben - @Patricipacion