Erik-jan Zurcher
Professor emeritus Turkish Studies
- Name
- Prof.dr. E.J. Zurcher
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4087-3952
Erik-Jan Zürcher is professor emeritus. He is primarily interested in the period of transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (roughly: 1880-1950) and in the role of the Young Turk generation/movement in this process. After a period in which he studied the political history of the period, he gradually became more interested in its social history as well. In his view the key to an understanding of the emergence of modern Turkey lies in linking the processes of forced migration, war, the imperial legacy and nation building.
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Erik-Jan Zürcher (1953) was awarded his MA in Middle East studies at Leiden University in 1977 and his Ph.D. at Leiden University in 1984. From 1977 to 1997 Zürcher worked in the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now: Radboud University), first as a lecturer of Turkish, later as a senior lecturer in History of the Middle East. From 1989 to 1999 he headed the Turkish department of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1997 he held a private chair of Turkish History in the University of Amsterdam. Since 1997 he has held the chair of Turkish Studies in the University of Leiden. In 2008-2012 he was general director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. From 2012 to 2015 he was affiliate professor at Stockholm University.
His main research interest is the political and social history of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. He made his mark with two studies on political contestation in the early republic, The Unionist Factor (Leiden: Brill, 1984) and Political Opposition in the Early Turkish Republic (Leiden: Brill, 1991). His Turkey. A modern history (first published in 1993 but substantially revised in 2004 and 2017) is widely used as textbook in universities in the U.S.A., the U.K, the Netherlands and Turkey. It has also been translated into nine languages. Zürcher has written or edited twelve books on the social and political history of the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Another research interest is the comparative history of military recruitment and employment, on which he has recently (2013) published a 685 p. volume called Fighting for a Living. The most recent book publication is Islam and Jihad in World War I (Leiden UP, 2015). All books have been published in Turkey in translation. The most important 50 publications are accessible online through https://www.academia.edu/
Zürcher has been an invited guest lecturer or visiting professor at SUNY Binghamton, Louisville KY, OSU Columbus, Minneapolis, Oxford (St. Anthony's), London (SOAS and LSE), Durham, Manchester, Bamberg, Munich, Bochum, Naples, Paris (EHESS), Basle, Berne, Zürich, Louvain, Ghent, UC Berkeley, Istanbul (Koç, Bilgi) Ankara (Bilkent) and Padua. In 2008 he gave the Hamilton Gibb memorial lecture at Harvard University. In 2003-4 Zürcher was actively involved in consultations on Turkey's accession to the European Union, among other things by writing the expert opinion for the Dutch EU presidency on the question whether Islam would be an impediment toTurkish accession. In June 2005 he was awarded the Medal of High Distinction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. In 2016 he returned this medal in protest against the persecution of academics and publishers in Turkey. In 2006 – 2007 he was involved in the founding of a Dutch Institute of Higher education in Ankara (NIHA) and a Turkey Institute in The Hague. For the last fifteen years he has commented regularly on current affairs Turkey to Dutch and international media and been involved in briefings for the Dutch government and business world.
In 2008 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He was a member of the National Unesco Commission of the Netherlands in 2011-2017, and has served on the jury of the Koç Prize for Turkish History (2014) and the Heineken Prize for History (since 2016). From 2018 to 2020 he is academic director of the Leiden Institute of Area Studies.
In Leiden Zürcher has so far been principal advisor for 21 successfully defended Ph.D. theses and is currently advising on eight more. He has been external examiner at the EHESS (Paris), INALCO (Paris), SOAS (London), University of Utah (Salt Lake City) , St. Anthony’s College (Oxford), Clark University, and Bordeaux University. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the following journals: International Journal of Middle East Studies Middle Eastern Studies International Journal of Turkish Studies Mülkiye Türkiyat Mecmuası
PhD Supervision
Completed
- Hülya Küçük. Defence: 17 May 2001. Thesis: The Role of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle Bektashi. Published by E.J. Brill as The Role of the Bektashis in Turkey’s National Struggle.
- Sytske Sötemann. Defence: 9 September 2004. Thesis: ‘Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. Turkse poëzie in de Vroege Twintigste Eeuw.’ Unpublished
- Vangelis Kechriotis. Defence: ? November 2005. Thesis: ‘The Greeks of Izmir at the End of the Empire a non-Muslim Ottoman Community between Autonomy and Patriotism.’ Unpublished
- Umut Azak. Defence: 2007. Thesis: Myths and Memories of Turkish secularism (1923-1966’ Published by I.B. Tauris as Islam and Secularism in Turkey.
- Sena Karasipahi. Defence: 20 June 2006. Thesis: Strange Fruit: ‘Muslim Intellectuals as Products of Kemalist Modernisation.’ Published by I.B. Tauris as Muslims in Modern Turkey.
- Annemarieke Stremmelaar. Defence: 7 February 2007. Thesis: ‘Justice and Revenge in the Ottoman Rebellion of 1703.’ Unpublished
- Özgür Mutlu Ulus. Defence: 18 December 2007. Thesis: 'The attitudes of the radical left in Turkey towards the army (1960-1971).’ Published by I.B. Tauris as The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey.
- Ismail Hakkı Kadi. Defence: 3 December 2008. Thesis: ‘Natives and Interlopers: Competition Between Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the 18th Century.’ Published by E.J. Brill as Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century.
- Pınar Yelsalı. Defence: 19 February 2009. Thesis: ‘Modernization and Gender regimes. Life Histories of the Wives of Turkish Political Leaders.’ Unpublished.
- Alex Lamprou. Defence:18 November 2009. Thesis: ‘Between Central State and Local Society. The People’s Houses Institution and the Domestication of Reform in Turkey (1932-1951).’ To be published by I.B. Tauris
- Doğan Cetinkaya. Defence: 26 May 2010. Thesis: ‘Muslim Merchants and Working Class in Action: Nationalism, Social Mobilization and Boycot Movement in the Ottoman Empire 1908-1914.’ Published by I.B. Tauris as The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement.
- Ismail Çağlar. Defence: 22 January 2013. Thesis: ‘Good and Bad Muslims. Real and Fake Seculars. Center-Periphery Relations and Hegemony in Turkey through the February 28 and April 27 Processes.’ Unpublished.
- Dorothe Sommer. Defence: 8 January 2013. Thesis: ‘Unity is Strength. Masonic Lodges in Ottoman Syria with Special Focus on Tripoli and al-Mina (1860-1908).’ Published by J.A. Allen as Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire.
- Nicole van Os. Defence: 31 October 2013, Thesis: Feminism, Philanthropy and Patriotism: Female Associational Life in the Ottoman Empire.’ Based on published articles.
- Merlijn Olnon. Defence: 8 January 2014. Thesis: ‘”Brought under the Law of the Land” The History, Demography and Geography of Crossculturalism in Early Modern Izmir, and the Köprülü Project of 1678.’ To be published by Brill.
- Emre Erol. Defence: 9 September 2014. Thesis: ‘Capitalism, Migration, War and Nationalism in an Aegean Port Town: The Rise and Fall of a Belle Epoque in the Ottoman County of Foçateyn.’ To be published by IB Tauris.
- Nikos Christofis. Defence: 3 February 2015. Thesis: ‘From Socialism via Anti-Imperialism to Nationalism. EDA – TİP: Socialist Contestation over Cyprus.’
- Sevgi Adak. Defence: 12 February 2015. Thesis: ‘Kemalism in the Periphery: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and State-Society Relations in 1930s Turkey’.
- Engin Kılıç: Defence: 11 June 2015. Thesis: ‘The Balkan War (1912-1913) and Visions of the Future in Ottoman Turkish Literature’.
- Buket Cengiz. Defence: 13 June 2017. Thesis: ‘‘Non Istanbulites”of Istanbul. The Right tot he City Novels in Turkish Literature from the 1960s to the Present.’
- Çiğdem Oğuz (cotutelle Bosphorus University, Asım Karaömerlioğlu) Defence: 13 June 2018. Thesis: “The Struggle Within: “Moral Crisis”on the Ottoman Homefront During the First World War.”
Ongoing
- Selim Ahmetoglu: Trabzon in the aftermath of the constitutional revolution of 1908 (expected defence date January 2019)
- Zeynep Şarlak (cotutelle Parijs, Ahmet Insel) The development of the security state in Turkey (expected defence date June 2019)
- Onur Ada: Competition for resources within the Kemalist single-party state
- Ömer Koçyiğit: Ottoman reactions to Mahdism and Wahhabism
- Uğur Derin: The discourse on internal and external enemies in Turkey
- Amed Gökcan: Ezidis in the late Ottoman Empire
- Remzi Cakirlar: The links between the Parti Radicale in France and Young Turks and Kemalists: comparisons and connections.
Professor emeritus Turkish Studies
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.) (2024), Yüz Kesitle Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nin Yüz Yılı: Turkish translation by Ali Selman of "A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments". Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (2024), Bir yüzyılın tarihinden kesitler: Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi, 1923-2023 [Fragments from a century: a history of Republican Turkey, 1923–2023] (translation: Yenen A.A. Zürcher E.J.). In: Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.), Yüz kesitle Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nin Yüz Yılı. Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları. 13-32.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (2024), Türklerden Başka Hiç Kimseyi İlgilendirmez: Yeni Yüzyıl İçin ‘Yeni Türkiye’nin Pazarlanması. In: Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.), Yüz Kesitle Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi’nin Yüz Yılı. Istanbul: İletişim Yayınları. 586–591.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.) (2023), A hundred years of Republican Turkey: a history in a hundred fragments. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (2023), Fragments from a century: a history of republican Turkey, 1923–2023. In: Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.), A hundred years of republican Turkey: a history in a hundred fragments . Leiden: Leiden University Press. 11-27.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (2023), That’s nobody’s business but the Turks’: rebranding “New Türkiye” for the new century. In: Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (Eds.), A hundred years of republican Turkey: a history in a hundred fragments . Leiden: Leiden University Press. 537-542.
- Yenen A.A. & Zürcher E.J. (2023), Yüzde Yüz Cumhuriyet Türkiye’si: Tarihsel Karmaşıklığı Parça Parça Okumak, Toplumsal Tarih Akademi 1(3): 126–130.
- Zurcher E.J. (2019), The Young Turk Revolution: Comparisons and Connections, Middle Eastern Studies 55(4): 481-498.
- Zurcher E.J. (2019), Young Turk Governance in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, Middle Eastern Studies 55(6): 897-913.
- Zurcher E.J. (2018), Conditional Equality - Young Turk Attitudes towards Ottoman Christians 1906-1926. In: Kyriakidis Th. & Hatzikyriakidis K. (Eds.), O POntos stin Ysteri Othomaniki Autokratia (1774-1908) Koinonia kai Oikonomia. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. 31-38.
- Zurcher E.J. (2017), Recent Trends in the Historiography of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, ventunesimo secolo 41: 9-17.
- Van der Zouw H. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.) (2017), Three Months in Mao's China. Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. (2017), "Jungtuerkische Entscheidungsmuster 1913-1915". In: Hosfeld R. & Pschichholz C. (Eds.), Das Deutsche Reich und der Voelkermord an den Armeniern. Goettingen: Wallstein. 81-105.
- Zurcher E.J. (2017), Turkey A Modern History. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Zurcher E.J. (2017), Recent Trends in the Historiography of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, ventunesimo secolo 41: 9-17.
- Barbaros F. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.) (2017), Modernizmin yanismalari. 90'li yillarda Turkiye no. 4. Ankara: Efil.
- Zurcher E.J. (Ed.) (2016), Jihad and Islam in World War I. Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany.”. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. (2016), “Introduction: The Ottoman Jihad, the German Jihad and the Sacralisation of War”. In: Zurcher E.J. (Ed.), Jihad and Islam in World War I. Studies on the Otoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany.”. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 13-28.
- Zurcher E.J. (2016), “31 Mart. A Fundamentalist Uprising in Istanbul in April 1909?”. In: Levy-Aksu N. & Georgeon F. (Eds.), The Young Tur Revolution and the Ottoman Empire. The Aftermath of 1908. London: I.B. Tauris. 196-211.
- Van der Zouw H. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.) (2016), Het Verre Oosten. Oog in Oog met het China van Mao. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. (2016), Review of: Ihrig S. (2014), Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Harvard Press. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30(3): 560-562.
- Zurcher E.J. (2016), Porta d'Oriente. Storia della Turchia dal settecento a oggi [Turkey A Modern History. Fourth Edition] (translation: Zurcher E.J.). Rome: Donzelli.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), “Young Turk Decision Making Patterns 1913-1915”. In: Annette Becker & et al. (Eds.), Le génocide des Arméniens. Cent ans de recherché 1915-2015. Paris: Armand Colin. 15-32.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), “Village and Empire: Recent Trends in the Historiography of the late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey". In: Shehabi H., Jafari P. & Jefroudi M. (Eds.), Iran and the Middle East. Transnational Encounters and Social History. London: I.B. Tauris. 249-261.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), Review of: Hale Yilmaz (2013), Becoming Turkish. Nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in early Republican Turkey, 1923–1945. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. nationalities papers 43(3): 527-529.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), Bir Ulusun İnşası. Jön Türk Mirası [The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building] (translation: Zurcher E.J.). Ankara: Akılçelen.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), “Dardanelles, Campagnes des (1915-1916)”. In: Georgeon F., Vatin N. & Veinstein G. (Eds.), Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman. Paris: Fayard. 330-331.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), “Guerre Mondiale (Première)”. In: Georgeon F., Vatin N. & Veinstein G. (Eds.), Dictionnaire de l'Empire Ottomane. Paris: Fayard. 526-530.
- Zurcher E.J. (2015), Turkije. Een Moderne Geschiedenis [Turkey A Modern History. Fourth Edition] (translation: Zurcher E.J.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), The Balkan Wars and the Refugee Leadership of the Early Turkish Republic. In: Yavuz H. & Blumi I. (Eds.), War and Nationalism. The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, and their Sociopolitical Implications. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 665-678.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), Cumhuriyetin 50. Yıldönümü ve 70’li Yıllarda Resmi Kemalizm. In: Barbaros F. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.), Modernizmin Sayfaları. 70lı Yıllarda Türkiye no. 2. Ankara: Efil. 187-197.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), Mustafa Kemal Paşa’nın İslam Tarihi Yorumu. In: Alkan M.Ö. (Ed.), Yakın Türkiye Tarihinden Sayfalar. Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası. 327-340.
- Barbaros F. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.) (2014), Modernizmin Yansımaları. 70lı Yıllarda Türkiye no. 2. Ankara: Efil.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014) Review of: Fatma Müge Göçek, The Transformation of Turkey. Redefining State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era. Review of: Müge Göçek Fatma (2011), The Transformation of Turkey. Redefining State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era. London: I.B.Tauris. International Journal of Turkish Studies 19(1-2): 199-202.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014) Review of: Mehmet Beşikçi, The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War: Between Voluntarism and Resistance. Review of: Beşikçi M. (2012), The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War: Between Voluntarism and Resistance. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage no. 52. Leiden: Brill. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 104: 401-403.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), The War in the Middle East: An Eyewitness Account, Contemporanea 17(4): 653-659.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), What was Different about the Ottoman War?, Pera Blaetter 27: 1-22.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), Macedonians in Anatolia. The Importance of the Macedonian Roots of the Unionists for their Policies in Anatolia after 1914 , Middle Eastern Studies 50(6): 960-975.
- Zurcher E.J. (2014), Monologue to Conversation: Comparative Approaches in Turkish Historiography , Turkish Studies 15(4): 589-599.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), Turcja Od Sultanatu do Wspotczesnosci [Turkey A Modern History] (translation: Zurcher E.J.). Cracow: Jagellonian University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “Atatürk en zijn Persoonlijkheidscultus”, Leidschrift 28(3): 43-58.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), Ta’rikh Turkiyya al-Hadith [Turkey A Modern History] (translation: Zurcher E.J.). Beyrut: Dar al-Madar al-Islami.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013) Times Higher Education. Review of: Gawrych G.W. (2013), The Young Atatürk. From Ottoman Soldier to statesman of Turkey. London: I.B. Tauris (2112): 49.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “Kemalist Türkiyede Mondernleşmenin Sınırları (1923-1945)” . In: Barbaros R.F. & Zurcher E.J. (Eds.), Modernizmin Yansımaları: 60’lı Yıllarda Türkiye. Ankara: Efil. 9-24.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “A Miracle in Amsterdam? The Turkish Collection of the International Institute of Social History”. In: Clayer N. & Kaynar E. (Eds.), Penser, agir et vivre dans l’Empire Ottoman et en Turquie. Études reunites pour François Georgeon. Leuven: Peeters. 525-542.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), "Understanding Military Recruitment and Employment Worldwide” . In: Zurcher E.J. (Ed.), Fighting for a Living. A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000 no. 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 11-41.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “Turkey in the First World Crisis: From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism”. In: Konrad H. & Maderthaner W. (Eds.), Into the Abyss. Coping with Crises in the 1930s. Oxford: Berghahn. 127-138.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “The Odd Man Out: Why was there no regime change in the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I?”. In: Kastoryano Riva (Ed.), Turkey Between Nationalism and Globalization.. Abingdon: Routledge. 21-35.
- Zurcher E.J. (Ed.) (2013), . Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History.
- Zurcher E.J. (Ed.) (2013), Fighting for a Living. A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000 no. 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Zurcher E.J. & Barbaros R.F. (Eds.) (2013), Modernizmin Yansımaları: 60’lı Yıllarda Türkiye. Ankara: Efil.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013) The English Historical Review. Review of: Stone N. (2010), Turkey. A Short History. London: Thames and Hudson. The English Historical Review 128(532): 714-716.
- Zurcher E.J. (2013), “Introduction: The socio-economic history of violence in the late Ottoman Empire”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 10(4): 3-19.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2012), In the name of the father, the teacher and the hero: the Ataturk personality cult in Turkey. In: Ibrahim V. & Wunsch M. (Eds.), Political Leadership, Nations and Charisma. London: Routledge. 129-142.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2011), Renewal and silence: Postwar Unionist and Kemalist rhetoric on the Armenian genocide. In: Suny R., Gocek F. & Naimark N. (Eds.), A Question of Genocide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 306-316.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2011), Demographic engineering, state building and the army. The Ottoman Empire and the First World War. In: Leonhard J. & Hirschhausen U. von (Eds.), Comparing Empires. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. 530-544.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2011), Hoe Constantinopel viel. In: Amersfoort H., Blom H., Bos D. & Es G. van (Eds.), Belaagd en Belegerd. Amsterdam: Balans. 101-117.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2011), Review of: , Ataturk. An Intellectual Biography no. 1999. Times Higher Education : 55-55.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2010), The Young Turk legacy and nation building. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2010), The Importance of Being Secular: Islam in the Service of the National and Pre-National State. In: Kerslake C., Oktem K. & Robins P. (Eds.), Turkey's Engagement with Modernity. Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 55-68.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2010), Review of: , The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War no. 1. Diplomacy and Statecraft 21: 128-131.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2010), Islamism vs Secularism?, Idee: wetenschappelijk tijdschrift D66 31(6): 18-21.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2009), Ataturk as a Young Turk, New Perspectives on Turkey 41: 211-262.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2009), Turkey in the last World Crisis.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2009), Refusing to Serve by Other Means: Desertion in the Late Ottoman Empire. In: Cinar O.H. & Usterci Coskun (Eds.), Conscientious Objection. Resisting Militarized Society. London: Zed. 45-52.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2009), Review of: , Gerald Fitzmaurice (1865-1939). Chief Dragoman of the British Embassy in Constantinople no. 1-2. International Journal of Turkish Studies 15: 165-168.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2009), The Late Ottoman Empire as a Laboratory of Social Engineering, il Mestiere di Storico 10(1): 7-18.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2008), The Turkish Perception of Europe. Example and Enemy. In: Wintle M. (Ed.), Imagining Europe. Europe and European Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Rest of the World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Brussels: Lang. 93-104.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2008), Hizmet etmeyi başka biçimlerle reddetmek: Osmanli imparatorluğunun son dönemlerinde asker kaçakliği [Refusing to Serve by Other Means: Desertion in the Late Ottoman Empire]. In: Heval Çinar Ö. & Üsterci C. (Eds.), Çarklardaki Kum: Vicdani Red. Istanbul: Iletişim. 59-68.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2008), From Empire to Republic - Problems of Transition, Continuity and Change. In: Zürcher E.J. (Ed.), Turkey in the Twentieth Century. La Turquie au vingtième siècle. Berlin: Schwarz. 15-30.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2008), A tentativa de liderança fracassada da Turquia atraves da integraçao regional. In: Wiesebron M. & Griffiths R.T. (Eds.), Progressos de Integraçao Regional e Cooperaçao Intercontinental desde 1989. Rio Grande do Sul: UFRGS. 131-142.
- Zürcher E.-J. (Ed.) (2008), Turkey in the Twentieth Century. La Turquie au vingtième siècle. Berlin: Schwarz.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Storia della Turchia dalla fine dell’Impero Ottomano ai giorni nostri. Rome: Donzelli.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Region or discipline? The debate about area studies. In: Groen A. in 't, Jonge H.J. de, Klasen E., Papma H. & Slooten P. van (Eds.), Knowledge in Ferment. Dilemmas in Science, Scholarship and Society. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 243-256.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Griechisch-orthodoxe und muslimische Flüchtlinge und Deportierte in Griechenland und der Türkei seit 1912. In: Bade K.J., Emmer P.C., Lucassen L. & Oltmer J. (Eds.), Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Paderborn/München: Ferdinand Schöningh/Wilhelm Fink. 623-627.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Yıkımın ve yenilenmenin mimarları: Kemalist jenerasyona ve Jön Türklere dair bir grup biyografisi denemesi. In: Bora T., Alkan M. & Koraltürk M. (Eds.), Mete Tunçay’a armağan. Istanbul: İletişim. 539-572.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Turkish secularism in a European context. Goren Nimrod & Nachmani Amikam (Eds.), The importance of being European: Turkey, the EU, and the Middle East. Congres. Jeruzalem: Hebrew University. 131-140.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), The Ottoman legacy of the Kemalist republic. Atabaki Touraj (Ed.), The state and the subaltern. Modernization, society and the state in Turkey and Iran. . Londen: I.B. Taurus. 95-110.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2007), Modern Türkiye tarihinde dönüm noktaları ve kaçırılan fırsatlar; olaylar nerelerde farklı yöne gidebilirdi?, Kebikec 24: 19-29.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2006), Sejarah modern Turki. Jakarta: Gramedia.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2006), Een geschiedenis van het moderne Turkije. Tweede, geheel herziene editie. Amsterdam: SUN.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2006), De Turkse paradox. Religie in dienst van de seculiere staat. In: Hooven M. ten & Wit T. de (Eds.), Ongewenste goden. De publieke rol van religie in Nederland. Amsterdam: SUN.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2005), Turkia historia modernit. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2005), Savas, devrim ve uluslasma. Türkiye'de gecis dönemi (1908-1928). Istanbul: Bilgi.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2005), Giris: demografi mühendisligi ve modern Türkiye'nin dogusu. In: Zürcher E.-J. (Ed.), Imparatorluktan cumhuriyete Türkiye'de etnik catisma. Istanbul: Iletisim.
- Zürcher E.-J. (Ed.) (2005), . European Review.
- Zürcher E.-J. (Ed.) (2005), Imparatorluktan cumhuriyete Türkiye'de etnik catisma. Istanbul: Iletisim.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2005), Introduction to Focus on Turkey, European Review 13(3): 377-378.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2005), How Europeans adopted Anatolia and discovered Turkey, European Review 13(3): 379-394.
- Zürcher E.-J. (2004), Synchroni historia tis Tourkias. Athene: Alexandreia.
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