Title:	Assist. Professor Dr.
Address:	Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations, 06531, Ankara / TURKEY
Phone:	+90-312-2103062
Fax:	+90-312-2107983
E-mail:	boyar@metu.edu.tr
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current research interests include propaganda, image and representation in the Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic; sexual health and the state in the late Ottoman Empire-early Turkish Republic; and foreign policy in the early Turkish Republic.

EDUCATION 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• The Ottomans and Trade, edited jointly with Kate Fleet (Oriente Moderno, XXV (LXXXVI)) (Rome, 2006).

• Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London and New York: IB Tauris, 2007).

• “British archaeological travellers in nineteenth-century Anatolia: Anatolia ‘without’ Turks” Eurasian Studies 1/1 (2002), 97-113.

• “Ottoman History in a Comparative Perspective?, Review Article of Ariel Salzmann, Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire. Rival Paths to the Modern State (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004)”, Journal of Early Modern History, 8/3-4 (2004), 409-15.

• ‘“Making Turkey and the Turkish revolution known to foreign nations without any expense”: Propaganda films in the early Turkish Republic”, with Kate Fleet, Oriente Moderno, 24 (LXXXV)/1 (2005), 117-32.

• “The press and the palace: The two way relationship between Abdülhamid II and the press, 1876-1908”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69/3 (2006), 417-32.

• “A dangerous axis: the “Bulgarian Müftü”, the Turkish opposition and the Ankara government, 1928-1936”, with Kate Fleet, Middle Eastern Studies, 44/5 (2008), 775-89.