In recent months I’ve gotten a big interest in the Ottoman Empire and the birth of Turkey. I have a history on the Ottoman Empire coming in next week, and am almost done with Eugene Rogan’s Fall of the Ottomans. I’m somewhat disappointed that it focuses on the ottoman military campaigns in the Great War, while leaving cultural changes in the state, as well as the Turkish War of Independence, mostly off to the side. I would love to read about these much more in-depth, and I’d love to read about the war of independence and Kemalan/Atatürkan Turkey properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
There is a famous otobiographical book of Şevket Süreyya Aydemir named "Suyu Arayan Adam" or Turgut Özakman's "Şu Çılgın Türkler" also if you want to see Socialist narrative Kemal Tahir's books like "Esir Şehrin İnsanları" or "Yorgun Savaşçı" could be tasteful bit I don't know these books translated or not.