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Klaus Kreiser
(b.1945) is chair of Turkish language, history, and culture at the University of Bamberg. He worked for many years as a researcher of Ottoman Studies in the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.
His publications include: Istanbul. Ein historisch-literarischer Stadtführer, Munich: C.H. Beck, 2001; Kleine Geschichte der Türkei (with Christoph K. Neumann), Stuttgart: Reclam, 2003.Eurozine Articles
Arrival in the twenty-first century
Istanbul and modernity
Istanbul's Ottoman heritage has been fighting a losing battle against modernization since the 1920s. For most residents of the city today, there is no alternative to a Western way of life. [more]
02.11.2005
