Turkey
Subtitle: The Challenge of a New Role (The Washington Papers)
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: July 30, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780275949860
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); International relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; ASIA; Turkey; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations; 1960-; 1980-; Foreign relations; Politics and government; Social conditions
First sentence: The republic of Turkey is the central successor state of the multinational, or rather multiconfessional, Ottoman Empire, which, at the time of its maximum expansion in the sixteenth century, stretched from the gates of Vienna to the India Ocean and from the steppes of southern Russia to the Sahara desert.