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From the early Attaturk years, Turkish radio broadcasting was seen as a great hope for sealing the national identity of the new Turkish Republic. Since the inaugural broadcast in 1927 the national elite designed radio broadcasting to represent the 'voice of a nation'. Here Meltem Ahiska reveals how radio broadcasting actually showed Turkey's uncertainty over its position in relation to Europe. While the national elite wanted to build their own Turkish identity, at the same time they desired recognition from Europe that Turkey was now a Westernized modern country. Ahiska shows how these tensions played out over the radio in the conflicting depictions and discrepancies between the national elite and 'the people', 'cosmopolitan' Istanbul and 'national' Ankara and men and women (especially in Radio drama). Through radio broadcasting we can see how Occidentalism dictated the Turkish Republic's early history and shaped how modern Turkey saw itself.

Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the public intellectual and literary critic, and his political and intellectual legacy: the future through the lens of his work.

In 'Kemal's Dream' Ahmet Polat focuses on young people in present-day Turkey. Their life is determined to a large degree by the clash between tradition and modernity, and between religion and secularism. For many young people, this produces an inner conflict that typifies the entire Republic of Turkey. For over six years Polat worked on the project resulting resulting in exhibitons at Foam and DEPO Istanbul and this new publication. 0Exhibition: FOAM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (15.10.-8.12.2010). 0.