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In memoriam: Alexander Hendrik (Sander) de Groot (3 april 1943 - 1 april 2024) 12 April 2024Op maandag 1 april 2024 stierf onze leermeester, vriend en gewaardeerd collega Dr. Alexander Hendrik de Groot (Sander).
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Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained 08 May 2023In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections prom...
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Andrea Cortellari wins the best MA thesis prize in Turkish Studies 18 August 2021Andrea Cortellari, a 2020 graduate of the MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, wins the best MA thesis prize...
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Bahar Simsek: ‘Research does not need to be holistic’ 03 May 2021How does audio-visual material shape the identity of people when those people do not own their own land and are being oppressed? Bahar Simsek delved i...
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In memoriam: Prof. Dr. Barbara Henriëtte Flemming (28 mei 1930 - 22 maart 2020) 29 April 2020On 22 March 2020 passed away due to heart failure emerita professor Turkish Language and Culture Barbara Flemming: a great loss for her partner Dr. S...
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'Turkey. A Modern History' now in nine languages 21 May 2013
The book on Turkey. A Modern History written by Professor Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor of Turkish Studies, is now available in nine different languages...
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The true Istanbul feeling 15 April 2013
In the last week of March, twenty Leiden students of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies left for a seven-day trip to Istanbul. Their goal: to follow l...
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400 years of ties celebrated with new Dutch-Turkish dictionary 17 April 2012
The new Dutch-Turkish dictionary has been completed, just in time for the celebration of 400 years of Dutch-Turkish ties. It would not have been possi...
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Istanbul trip: brief but memorable 17 April 2012
‘This trip gives you the chance to experience at first hand what you learn about in your study programme,’ says Lars Moll, third-year student of Middl...