author | Insight Turkey https://www.insightturkey.com/ author EN authorThe three books selected for review here shed new light on the current popularity of Neo-Ottomanism and the bloody endgame of the Empire in 1918. https://www.insightturkey.com/author/ozay-mehmet/the-ottoman-legacy-and-neo-ottomanism-a-review-articlehttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/ozay-mehmet/the-ottoman-legacy-and-neo-ottomanism-a-review-articleSat, 28 Nov 2020 16:06:00 GMTauthorWe are now witnessing a harvest of new history books on the making of the modern Middle East. Five are chosen for a critical review below. They are works by experts, well-researched and highly readable and infinitely more objective than the over-supply of Eurocentric or Orientalist books of the past. Yet, all four have limitations, lacking due Ottoman/Turkish/Arab/Muslim sentiment and “flavor.” The fifth on the Ottoman siege of Vienna is illuminating and relevant to the on-going debate on Turkey-EU relations. It, too, has its limitationshttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/ozay-mehmet/still-awaited-a-truly-objective-history-of-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-easthttps://www.insightturkey.com/author/ozay-mehmet/still-awaited-a-truly-objective-history-of-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-eastSun, 01 Jan 2017 15:15:00 GMT