It all started with the term seferberlik, which, in modern Turkish, literally means mobilization. I have come across this term in oral histories, literature, linguists’ works, folk songs, stories, and laments. What surprised me most was that people meant something muc..
Yiğit Akın
Yiğit Akın is an assistant professor of history at Tulane University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University’s Department of History. His research interests include the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. He is the author of ‘Robust and Vigorous Children’: Physical Education and Sports in Early Republican Turkey (İletişim Yayınları, 2004) and, most recently, When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire (Stanford University Press, 2018). His research has also been published in International Journal of Middle East Studies, International Review of Social History, and Journal of Women’s History. He is co-editor (with Melanie Tanielian) of the Ottoman Empire/Middle East section of 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.