Turkey the quest for identity

This concise history tells the story of Turkey, a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. Feroz Ahmad provides a full survey of Turkey''s checkered past, from its beginnings as a disparate group of tribes to its status as the first secular republic in the Islamic world. In...

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Main Author: Ahmad, Feroz (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:2nd edition
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Table of Contents:
  • The Ottomans: from statehood to empire, 1300-1789
  • From reform to revolution, 1789-1908
  • The constitutional revolution: reform and war, 1908-1918
  • The Kemalist era, 1919-1938
  • Towards multi-party politics and democracy, 1938-1960
  • Military guardians, 1960-1980
  • The military, the parties and globalization, 1980-2003
  • Chronology of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey