Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Episode 14 - Picking Up The Pieces W/ Connor Mulhern
The 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.
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Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
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
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
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
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
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
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
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
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
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
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
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
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
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
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
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