Ottomans Online is a series of seminars on the Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic hosted by the Skilliter Centre at Cambridge University. Amit Bein is Professor of History at Clemson University, and the author of Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period (Cambridge University Press, 2017) – he takes the line that Turkey in the 20th century was much more entangled with Middle East affairs than historians generally project.