The making of modern Turkey

Routledge

1993

xii, 252p. (cased)

The making of the Middle East

Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-242) and index.

9780415078351

Contents: 1. Introduction: Turkey, a military society? --- 2. The Ottoman legacy --- 3. From empire to nation 1908-1923 --- 4. The new Turkey: politics (1923-1945) --- 5. The new Turkey: society and economy (1923-1945) --- 6. The multi-party conundrum 1945-1960 --- 7. Military intervention, institutional restructuring, and ideological politics, 1960-1971 --- 8. Military intervention, social democracy, and political terror, 1971-1980 --- 9. Military intervention and political and economic restructuring, 1980-1991 --- 10. Epilogue: Turkey today and tomorrow.

Written at a time when the Turkish military has been playing a prominent political role, this text attempts to put this role in a perspective which challenges conventional wisdom of a monolithic and unchanging army

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