Winning Turkey
Subtitle: how America, Europe, and Turkey can revive a fading partnership
By: Philip Gordon and Omer Taspinar.
Contributors: Taspinar, Omer, 1970-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780815732150
Subjects: European Union -- Turkey; Minorities -- Government policy -- Turkey; Islam and politics -- Turkey; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980-; Turkey -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Foreign relations -- Turkey; Turkey -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: "Explains current situation and designs a plan to ease tensions in Turkey. Proposes a 'grand bargain' between Turkey and the Kurds, advocating greater support for increased liberalism and democracy, renewed European and Turkish commitment to promote EU membership, a historic compromise with Armenia, and greater Western engagement with Turkish Cypriots"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : who lost Turkey?; title: Kemalists, Islamists, and the West; title: The crisis with the United States; title: Europe's closing door; title: Turkey's Eurasian alternatives; title: Winning Turkey.