Christopher Houston. Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’état, and Memory in Turkey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 242 pp.

nationalmemory fromthe perspective of different narratives of incompatibility between Greeks and Turks. They present questions of identity and boundaries between religions, languages, and ethnic communities during the period of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. In the epilogue, Willert summarizes and compares the old and new narratives on the Ottoman heritage in Greek history since the late 1990s. Consequently, the book reveals how the historical and fictional narratives played a role in reaching out to a large populationwithmessages for thereimaginationof the“self”andthe“other”andprovideabetter understanding of how the Ottoman past is slowly and steadily becoming an integral part of Greek collective historical consciousness. In this historical account, she discusses how thesenew interpretations reflect thenation’spresent, theself-definitionofnational identity in terms of beingmodern and European, or including a non-European past. However, one issue she does not sufficiently address is the contributions of the Western Thracian Turks in this emergence of a New Ottoman Greece. Nonetheless, the nexus of the book is Greek narratives. Having said that, this book will be valuable for both those looking for a new perspective on the debates of the Ottoman heritage in Greece as well as academics and laypeople.