Turks and Europe: Identity, Culture, and Gender from the Ottoman Empire to the EU

Examines culture and politics between Europe and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey from the early modern era to the present. Focus on conflict and exchange through lenses of secularism, nationalism, imperialism, feminism and Islamism. Turks have lived within Europe since the fourteenth century, but are often not considered to be of Europe. The Ottomans, a Sunni Muslim empire, expanded into southeastern and central Europe (1500-1800). The Empire shifted from being a dominant power to a state sustained through European diplomacy. After WWI, the creation of the Republic of Turkey was also a process that involved European intervention.