Ebru Boyar is a Professor in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Her research focuses on Ottoman and Turkish republican social and diplomatic history. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and together with Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010). Among her edited volumes are Middle Eastern and North African Societies (2018), and Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (Brill, 2023), both edited with Kate Fleet.