Research projects
- Niyazi Berkes archive
Visiting PhD Student Mahir Melih Güneş (Hacettepe University, Ankara) catalogued Ottoman books and archives from the collection of Turkish sociologist and historian Niyazi Berkes (1908-1988).
Professor Berkes was born in Cyprus in 1908 and died in the UK in 1988. After graduating from the University of Istanbul with a degree in philosophy, he obtained a PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago. On his return to Turkey, he worked at Ankara University before moving to McGill University in Canada where he stayed until his retirement in 1975. Apart from his pioneering works on Turkish village sociology and propaganda, he is particularly well-known for his work on the development of secularism from the late Ottoman empire to the early Turkish republic and on Turkish nationalism. One of his most significant books is The Development of Secularism in Turkey, first published in 1964. He also translated and published Ziya Gökalp’s essays, Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization: Selected Essays of Ziya Gökalp, first published in 1959.
Ahlak-ı Alai by Kınalızade
The Berkes collection includes rare books, such as the first printed edition of Ahlak-ı Alai, a manuscript written in 1564 by the 16th-century Ottoman kadı and philosopher Kınalızade Ali Efendi. This text on moral philosophy covers the ethics of the individual, the family, society and the state.
İttihad ve Terakki’nin Fırıldakları Yahud Tarih-i Matem
[“The Intrigues of the Committee of Union and Progress or the History of Grief”, pamphlet]
The Berkes Collection also includes many Ottoman books and pamphlets published anonymously or under pseudonyms during the period of the Committee of Union and Progress. One of the most interesting examples in the collection is a pamphlet titled İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti’nin Fırıldakları Yahud Tarih-i Matem, printed by Arşak Gorayan Matbaası with the initials M. Z. in 1228 [1910-11]. The pamphlet adopts an oppositional and critical stance towards the Committee of Union and Progress, arguing that its members became corrupt over time.
“Sosyal Organizasyon ve Sosyal Değişim İle İlgisi Bakımından Adlar Üzerine Bir Araştırma”
[“Research on names in relation to social organisation and social change”, unpublished article draft; undated, late 1930s or early 1940s]
The collection also comprises an extensive and rich collection of Berkes’ personal notes, drafts of his articles published in various periodicals, and drafts of his unpublished articles, all handwritten in Ottoman. One of the most notable drafts of his unpublished works, which examines names before and after the Surname Law of 1934, is a particularly interesting example of Berkes’s historical-sociological approach to the ways in which Kemalist reforms shaped Turkish culture in the early Republican era.
Ephemera relating to Berkes’s years in Canada and the UK
The Berkes Collection also offers a large corpus of documents from his time at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal and his life in retirement in Kent.
- Naima
The eminent Ottomanist and former Master of St Cross College, Oxford, Dr Richard Repp, donated his working library to the Skilliter Centre, and, after his death in November 2021, his widow, Cathy Repp, donated further volumes, including his unfinished translation of volume two and part of volume three of a history written by the seventeenth-century Ottoman historian Naima whose work covers the period 1591-1660. The aim of this project is the complete the translation and prepare it for publication. The publication will include an introduction to the text, a chapter on Naima as an historian and a historical chapter setting the period of the translation in context. This project involves three workshops. The members of the project are Dr Christine Woodhead (University of Durham), Professor Ebru Boyar and Dr Kate Fleet.
- The Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period
The Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period was a three-year project organised by the Skilliter Centre and Vehbi Koç ve Ankara Araştırmaları Merkezi (VEKAM), Koç University. As part of this project, there were three conferences on Disease and Disaster in Ottoman Anatolia, Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia, and Social and Cultural Life in Ottoman Anatolia. The first conference, Disease and Disaster in Ottoman Anatolia, was held in Cambridge on 18-19 March 2016 and covered disease and disaster, both man-made and natural, and examined how society reacted to and coped with such disasters, how the state responded and how such events impacted state-society relations. For details see the conference page.
The second and third conferences, Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia (for details, see the conference page) and Social and Cultural Life in Ottoman Anatolia, were held in Ankara in Autumn 2017 and Autumn 2018 respectively.
- The Ottoman woman in public space (2011-2013)
Much has been written about the lack of visibility of women, their insignificance in society and their lack of a role in spheres such as politics or popular protest. Traditionally regarded as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the home and not seen beyond the walls of the house or the public bath, women have not generally been subjected to a more nuanced scrutiny in much of the academic literature on the topic.
This Skilliter Centre research project considers the role of women in the public space and examines various spheres including women as economic producers and consumers, female slaves, women and violence, the flirting woman, marginal women and prostitutes, and women in politics. The members of this project are Edith Ambros (University of Vienna), Ebru Boyar (Middle East Technical University, Ankara and Academic Advisor to the Skilliter Centre), Palmira Brummett (Brown University), Kate Fleet (Skilliter Centre) and Svetla Ianeva (The New Bulgarian University, Sofia).
A workshop was held on 7-9 February 2013 at the Skilliter Centre at which the members of the project discussed their individual chapters for the forthcoming book and the joint introduction and conclusion. The book, Ottoman Women in Public Space, edited by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, was published by Brill in 2016.
Research activities
- Excursion to Ankara
In March 2009, four of the undergraduates taking Dr. Fleet’s course on the history of modern Turkey – Ivan Gladstone, Bayan Parvizi, Isobel Spaven-Donn, and Adam Williams – visited Ankara, with bursaries from the Skilliter Centre. Whilst in Ankara, they stayed in the guesthouse of the Middle East Technical University.
On Monday 16th March, they visited Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, with lunch in a restored Ottoman mansion in the castle overlooking the city. On Tuesday, they had an architectural tour led by Dr. Buket Tosun, a lecturer in art history from Hacettepe University, round old Ankara. The tour took in examples of the various architectural styles and early Republican buildings, including the İş Bankası, the first Parliament building, and the Opera House.
Wednesday was spent in Beypazarı, where the students visited old Ottoman houses and experienced a traditional treatment for removing evil eyes, as well as experimenting with shadow puppets; they had lunch in a converted 19th-century school. On their return to Ankara, they had cocktails, followed by a traditional İskender kebabı dinner, before departing on Thursday.
- Summer gathering
The Skilliter Centre held a Summer Gathering for Patrons, Friends and supporters of the Skilliter Centre on 2 July 2006. Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet gave a talk on “The Ottoman Garden”. The food for the buffet lunch was given by Mr Hüseyin Özer, the owner of the Özer restaurant in Langham Place, London and of the Sofra restaurants in London.
- The Ottoman Experience tour
From 1-10 September 2005 there was a Skilliter Centre tour organised for a group of 26 Newnham alumnae and friends and led by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet to Istanbul, Bursa and Edirne. Over the ten days of the tour, the group visited sites ranging from a 15th-century mental hospital in Edirne to the 19th-century palace of Dolmabahçe in İstanbul, ate in a hamam, a konak, and a soup kitchen, and drank tea in a former abattoir of a mosque complex. Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet gave 11 lectures during the tour on various aspects of Ottoman history and culture.
The Skilliter Centre is extremely grateful for the support of all those on the tour and in particular for the generous, and unexpected, donation presented at the final dinner on the Bosphorus. This enabled the Centre to buy a variety of books including the new ten-volume complete edition of the works of the 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Without this support the Centre would not have been able to buy these volumes.
Publications
- 2023
Ebru Boyar, “Nations and Nationalisms in the Late Ottoman Empire”, in The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism, vol. 2, ed. Cathy Carmichael, Matthew D’Auria, and Aviel Roshwald (Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 24-42.
Ebru Boyar & Kate Fleet (2023) “The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s”, Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2023.2255139
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
Eve Lacey, “The role of Halkevi libraries in the early Turkish Republic”, Library & Information History 39, no. 2 (2023).
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, ch. 5, “Great Britain and ‘a small and poor peasant state’: Turkey, Britain and the 1930 Anglo-Turkish Treaty of Commerce and Navigation”, in From Enemies to Allies Turkey and Britain, 1918–1960, ed. Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, Dirlek Barlas and William Hale (London: Routledge, 2023).
- 2021
- Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
- 2019
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
- 2018
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
Ebru Boyar, “Taking health to the village: early Turkish republican health propaganda in the countryside”, in Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 164-211
Kate Fleet, “The provision of water to Istanbul from Terkos: continuities and change from empire to republic”, in Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 212-38.
Ebru Boyar “Medicine in practice: European influences on the Ottoman medical habitat”, Turkish Historical Review, 9/3 (2018), pp. 213-241.
- 2016
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), Ottoman Women in Public Space (Brill: Leiden, 2016).
Ebru Boyar, “Chapter 7: an imagined moral community: Ottoman female public presence,honour and marginality”, in Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 187-229.
Ebru Boyar, “Chapter 8: the public presence and political visibility of Ottoman women”, in Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 230-52.
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 4: the powerful public presence of the Ottoman female consumer”, in Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 91-127.
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 5: the extremes of visibility: slave women in Ottoman public space”, in Ottoman Women in Public Space (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 128-49.
Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), Türkiye Tarihi 1453-1603, Bülent Üçpunar (trans.) (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2016).
Kate Fleet, “2. Osmanlılar, 1451-1603: Siyasi Tarihe Bir Giriş”, in Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), Türkiye Tarihi 1453-1603, Bülent Üçpunar (trans.) (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2016), pp. 47-76.
Kate Fleet, “5. Akdeniz’de Osmanlı Genişlemesi”, in Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), Türkiye Tarihi 1453-1603, Bülent Üçpunar (trans.) (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2016), pp. 189-226.
Ebru Boyar, “4. Doğu’da Osmanlı Genişlemesi”, in Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), Türkiye Tarihi 1453-1603, Bülent Üçpunar (trans.) (İstanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2016), pp. 113-88).
Kate Fleet, “The Ottomans in the Mediterranean in the later fifteenth century: the strategy of Mehmed II”, Storja (2015), 19-36.
Ebru Boyar, review of Schull, Kent F., Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014), in Journal of Islamic Studies, 27/3 (2016), 404-7.
- 2015
Ebru Boyar, review of Yosmaoğlu, İpek, Blood Ties: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014), The American Historical Review, 120/2 (2015), 749-750.
Ebru Boyar, review of Çalış-Kural, B. Deniz, Şehrengiz: Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism in Ottoman Istanbul (Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, 21/1-2 (2015), 200-3.
Kate Fleet, “Florence and the Ottoman empire in the second half of the fifteenth century”, in Ötekilerin Peşinde Ahmet Yaşar Ocak Armağanı
[Festschrift for Ahmet Yaşar Ocak], ed. Mehmet Öz and Fatih Yeşil (Timaş Yayınları, 2015).
Kate Fleet, “Geç Osmanlı-Erken Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Döneminde Yabancılara Verilen Ekonomik İmtiyazlar” [Foreign economic concessions in the late Ottoman Empire- early Turkish Republic], in Uygur Kocabaşoğlu’na Armağan [Festschrift for Uygur Koçabaşoğlu], special issue of Kebikeç, 39 (spring 2015), 343-62.
- 2014
Kate Fleet and Svetla Ianeva, Ottoman Economic Practices in Periods of Transformation: The Cases of Crete and Bulgaria (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2014).
Ebru Boyar, “The impact of the Balkan Wars on Ottoman history writing: searching for a soul”, Hakan Yavuz (ed.), The First World War in the Middle East, Special Issue Middle East Critique, 23/2 (2014), pp. 147-59.
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, Osmanlı İstanbul’unun Toplumsal Tarihi, Serpil Çağlayan (trans.) (İstanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2014) (Turkish translation).
Erol Baykal, “Istanbul during the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)”, Turkish Historical Review, 5/2 (2014), pp. 141-64.
Kate Fleet, “The Ottoman economy, c.1300-c.1585”, History Compass, 12/5 (2014), pp. 455–64.
- 2013
Ebru Boyar, “Chapter 15: the Ottoman city”, in Peter Clark (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 275-91.
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, “Fener”, The Encyclopedia of Islam Three, fascicle 2013-1 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 114-15.
Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. II The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 1: The Ottomans, 1453-1603: a political history introduction”, in Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. II The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 19-43.
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 5: Ottoman expansion in the Mediterranean”, in Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. II The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 141-72.
Ebru Boyar, “Chapter 4: Ottoman expansion in the East”, Suraiya N. Faroqhi and Kate Fleet (eds.), Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. II, The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 74-140.
Ebru Boyar, “Türk Mezalimi” ve/veya “Rus Barbarlıkları”: 93 Harbi Sırasında İngiliz Basını ve Siyasi Tercihler”, İsmail Mangaltepe and Ali Fuat Örenç (eds.), Balkanlar ve Göç. The Balkans and Mass Immigration (Bursa: Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi Yayınları, 2013), pp. 173-187.
- 2012
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 13: Turks, Mamluks and Latin merchants: commerce, conflict and co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean”, in Jonathan Harris, Catherine Holmes and Eugenia Russell (eds.), Byzantines, Latins and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after 1150 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 327-44.
Ebru Boyar, review of Christine M. Philliou, Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011), American Historical Review, 117/3 (2012), pp. 973-974.
Ebru Boyar, review of Baki Tezcan, The Second Ottoman Empire. Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern Europe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), Journal of Islamic Studies, 23/3 (2012), pp. 394-397.
- 2011
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 11: The rise of the Ottomans”, in Maribel Fierro (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. II The Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 313-31.
Erol Baykal, “The Ottoman press and the Dutch East Indies at the beginning of the twentieth century” Turkish Historical Review, 2/1 (2011), pp. 1-17.
Ebru Boyar, ““An inconsequential boil” or a “terrible disease“? Social perceptions of and state responses to syphilis in the late Ottoman empire”, Turkish Historical Review, 2/2 (2011), pp. 101-24.
Kate Fleet, “Money and politics: the fate of British business in the new Turkish Republic”, Turkish Historical Review, 2/1 (2011), pp. 18-38.
Erol Baykal, “Periodicals of the Hakkı Tarık Us Collection”, Turkish Historical Review, 2/2 (2011), pp. 205-12.
- 2010
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Ebru Boyar, “Turkish-Bulgarian relations in the early Turkish Republic: The view from Ankara”, in Mustafa Türkeş (ed.), Turkish-Bulgarian Relations Past and Present (Istanbul: TASAM, 2010), pp. 57-69.
- 2009
Kate Fleet (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey , vol. I, Byzantium to Turkey 1071-1453 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Kate Fleet, Erken Osmanlı Döneminde Türk-Ceneviz Ticareti, Özkan Akpınar (trans.) (Istanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2009) (Turkish translation)
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), “The Ottomans and wealth: a comparative perspective”, Oriens, 37 (2009), pp. 103-269.
Kate Fleet, “Chapter 7: The Turkish economy, 1071-1453”, in Kate Fleet (ed.), The Cambridge History of Turkey, vol. I Byzantium to Turkey 1071-1453 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 227-65.
Kate Fleet, “Osmanlı Devleti’nin Erken Döneminde Doğu Akdeniz ve Karadeniz’de Denizcilik Faaliyetleri”, in İdris Bostan and Salih Özbaran (eds.), Türk Denizcilik Tarihi (Istanbul, 2009), I, pp. 63-71.
Ebru Boyar, “Profitable prostitution: State use of immoral earnings for social benefit in the late Ottoman empire”, Revue Bulgare d’histoire–Bulgarian Historical Review, 1-2 (2009), pp. 143-57.
Ebru Boyar, “Savaş ve Basın: Türk Ulusal Kurtuluş Savaşı ve İngiliz The Times Gazetesi (1919-1922)”, ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi – METU Studies in Development, 36/2 (2009), pp. 291-324.
Ebru Boyar, review of Mustafa Aksakal, The Ottoman Road to War in 1914. The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), American Historical Review, 114/4 (2009), pp. 1194-5.
Kate Fleet, review of M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009), Journal of Islamic Studies, 20/3 (2009), pp. 447-8.
Kate Fleet, review of Roxani Eleni Margariti, 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval Arabian Port. Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007), The Historian, 71/2 (2009), pp. 394-5
Kate Fleet, review of Edward J. Erikson, Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: a Comparative Study (London: Routledge, 2007), Journal of Islamic Studies 20/2 (2009), pp. 283-5.
Kate Fleet, review of Siriol Davies and Jack L. Davis (eds.), Between Venice and Istanbul. Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece (Athens: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007), Journal of Field Archaeology, 34/1 (2009), pp. 105-8
Kate Fleet, review of Rhoads Murphey, Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture 16th-18th Centuries(Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2007), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71/1 (2009), pp. 169-71.
Kate Fleet, review of Clara Bargellini (trans.), The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, edited and annotated with an introduction by Anthony Welch (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2007), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 71/2 (2009), pp. 399-401.
- 2008
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, “A dangerous axis: the “Bulgarian Müftü”, the Turkish opposition and the Ankara government, 1928-1936”, Middle Eastern Studies, 44/5 (2008), pp. 775-89.
Kate Fleet, review of Elizabetta Borromeo, Voyageurs occidentaux dans l’Empire ottoman (1600-1644), 2 volumes (Paris: Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes, Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18/3 (2008), pp. 366-8.
Kate Fleet, review of Hülya Canbakal, Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town. ‘Ayntāb in the 17th century (Leiden: Brill, 2007), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18/4 (2008), pp. 521-2.
Kate Fleet, review of Benjamin Lellouch, Les Ottomans en Égypte. Historiens et conquérants au XVIe siècle (Paris and Louvain: Peeters, 2006), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 18/3 (2008), pp. 364-6.
Kate Fleet, review of Zarinebaf, Fariba, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century (Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 2005), Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128 (2008), pp. 289-90.
- 2007
Ebru Boyar, Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London and New York: IB Tauris, 2007).
Ebru Boyar, review of Jens Hanssen, Fin de Siècle Beirut. The Making of An Ottoman Provincial Capital (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005), Journal of Islamic Studies, 18/1 (2007), pp. 128-31.
Kate Fleet, review of Niccolò Capponi, Victory of the West. The Story of the Battle of Lepanto (London: Pan Books, 2007), BBC History, 8/11 (November, 2007), p. 64.
- 2006
Kate Fleet, European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman Trade. The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) (paperback edition).
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV (LXXXVI)) (Rome, 2006).
Ebru Boyar, “Public good and private exploitation: criticism of the tobacco Régie in 1909” in Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV/I) (Rome, 2006), pp. 193-200.
Kate Fleet, “Law and trade in the early 15th century: the case of Cagi Sati Oglu”, in Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds.), The Ottomans and Trade (Oriente Moderno, XXV/I) (Rome, 2006), pp. 187-91.
Ebru Boyar, “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), pp. 417-32.
Kate Fleet, review of Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream. The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923(London: John Murray, 2005), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 16/3 (2006), pp. 307-9.
Kate Fleet, review of Nancy Bisaha, Creating East and West. Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), Speculum, 81/2 (2006), pp. 487-8.
- 2005
Kate Fleet, “Fickle deceivers: Iranians viewed from the Porte at the end of the 19th century”, in Michele Bernardini and Natalia L. Tornesello (eds.), Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, 2 vols. (Series Minor 68) (Naples, 2005), I, pp. 327-40.
Kate Fleet, “I documenti finanziari ottomani”, Litterae Caelestes, I (2005), pp. 81-7.
Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, ‘“Making Turkey and the Turkish revolution known to foreign nations without any expense”: Propaganda films in the early Turkish Republic”, Oriente Moderno, 24 (LXXXV)/1 (2005), pp. 117-32.
Ebru Boyar, review of Robert Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality. The World of Evliya Çelebi, with an afterword by Gottfried Hagen (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2004), Eurasian Studies, 4/1 (2005), pp. 122-5.
Kate Fleet, review of Michel Tuchscherer (ed.), Le commerce du café avant l’ère des plantations coloniales (Cairo, 2001), Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 39/1 (2005), pp. 124-5.
Kate Fleet, review of István Zombori (ed.), Fight against the Turk in Central Europe in the First Half of the 16th Century (Budapest: Magyar Egyháztörténeti Enciklopédia Munkaközösség, 2004), Journal of Early Modern History, 9/3-4 (2005), pp. 404-7.
- 2003
Maurits van den Boogert and Kate Fleet (ed.), The Ottoman Capitulations: text and context (Oriente Moderno, XXII/3) (Rome, 2003).
- 2002
The Skilliter Centre published the journal Eurasian Studies jointly with l’Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, Rome between 2002 and 2007.
- 2001
Kate Fleet (ed.), The Ottomans and the Sea (Oriente Moderno, XX/1) (Rome, 2001).
- 1999
Kate Fleet (ed.), The Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century (Oriente Moderno, 18/1) (Rome, 1999).