Turkish Dynamics: Bridge Across Troubled Lands

by E. Kalaycioglu

A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements.

256 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2005

Reviews

[Mark]

History of Turkey since pre WWI, with political, economic, social and religious trends examined. Interesting view of a Moslem, democratic (between military coups) country at the crossroad between Europe and Asia.

[Dan]

not bad. good overview in only 250 pages or so.