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Ömer Çeşit

Ömer Çeşit completed an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a master’s in Cultural Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University. He worked as an editor at the publisher Varlık Yayınları (VBKY). He is the author of the books Anafora Kapılmak, Kaçak Gölgeler, Eksik Olan and Burada ve Şimdi. He is the founder of Akademi Minerva and the PR Director of April Yayıncılık.

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Roger Crowley: ‘The empire Portugal built was a product of its own poverty’

In his book “Deniz Canavarları”, Roger Crowley describes how Portugal built a lasting empire in the Indian Ocean with a small navy, how maritime trade transformed global relations of power, and where this process stands in the history of colonialism. We spoke to the author about the relationship between trade, military power and violence at the dawn of globalisation.

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