Assigned Reading:

Quataert, chapter 2.

Selim Deringil, "The Turks and Europe: The Argument from History," Middle Eastern Studies 43 (2007), 709-23.

Seminar Questions:

• Is Turkey a European country?
  
• What are the criteria to qualify as "European"?
  
• Is "European" a geographic or a cultural category?
  
• How can history inform the debate over Turkish entry to the EU?
  

Further Reading:

Isa Blumi, "The Commodification of Otherness and the Ethnic Unit in the Balkans: How to Think about Albanians," East European Politics and Societies 12 (1998), 527-69.

Daniel Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

J.G.A. Pocock, "What Do We Mean by Europe?" The Wilson Quarterly 21 / 1 (1997), 12-29.

Gilles Veinstein, "The Great Turk and Europe," in Europe and the Islamic World: A History by John Esposito, John Tolan and Gilles Veinstein (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 111-256.

M.E. Yapp, "Europe in the Turkish Mirror," Past and Present 137 (1992), 134-55.