Turkey at the crossroads
Subtitle: Ottoman legacies and a greater Middle East
By: Dietrich Jung with Wolfango Piccoli.
Contributors: Piccoli, Wolfango, 1970-
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Islam and state -- Turkey; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Turkey -- Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Turkish puzzle; title: Modernisation as a theoretical concept; title: Reform and decline: modernisation in the Ottoman Empire; title: National resurrection: the early Turkish Republic; title: Western integration: the multi-party period; title: Kemalism challenged: Susurluk, political Islam and Kurdish nationalism; title: Encircled by enemies? Turkey's foreign policy and its Middle Eastern neighbours; title: The uneasy alignment: Turkey and Israel; title: The revival of Pan-Turkism: Turkish policies in Central Asian and the Transcaucasus; title: Conclusions: the impasse of Kemalist modernisation.