Elections présidentielle et législatives du 14 mai 2023 : le retour de la démocratie en Turquie ?Coordonné par Bayram Balci et Nicolas Monceau, Les dossiers du CERI L’année 2023 est une année cruciale en Turquie pour une double raison. Elle marque le centenaire de la fondation de la République de Turquie par Mustafa Kemal dit Atatürk en 1923 et sa célébration est l’occasion d’établir un bilan du pays dans de multiples domaines politique, économique et social, culturel ou encore international. L’année 2023 est aussi une année électorale décisive avec la tenue de deux élections – présidentielle et législatives – le 14 mai prochain. https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/dossierceri.html#042023 Elections présidentielle et législatives du 14 mai 2023 : le retour de la démocratie en Turquie

The Life of Theodotus of Amida : Syriac Christianity under the Umayyad Caliphate By Robert Hoyland & Andrew Palmer; With an archaeological appendix by Charlotte Labedan-Kodaş Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC https://www.gorgiaspress.com/the-life-of-theodotus-bishop-of-amida-d-698 The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Islam, and one of the few extant texts from seventh-century North Mesopotamia. It is imbued with local color and contemporary detail, revealing an intimate knowledge of the terrain, its inhabitants and officialdom, as well as the precariousness of the lives of those living in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Islamic empires.

by Charles Ganier « 1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings », in Iran and the Caucasus, 2023 n.1 https://brill.com/view/journals/ic/27/1/article-p90_6.xml  As one of the crucial moments of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, the siege of Tabriz is logically one of the most commented episodes of the period both in Iranian and foreign historiographies. Among these, the French perception of this episode of the late Qajar era is less known than the British and Russian ones, and of course than Iranian sources. This article puts in comparison two testimonies: one from the French Consul in Tabriz, Alphonse Nicolas, and the other one from a French military officer in travel through Central Asia, Fernand Anginieur. Although Nicolas had a great experience of Iran that Anginieur did not