Wednesday May 18, 2022
Episode 5 - The Squad (Turkish)
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 May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
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
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
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
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
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
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
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
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
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
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
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
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
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