Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey - Softcover

Pope, Nicole; Pope, Hugh

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9781590206904: Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590206908 ISBN 13: 9781590206904

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2011

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In this "deeply revealing guide to modern Turkish culture and politics"(The New York Times Book Review), Hugh and Nicole Pope provide a glimpse into a culture that has long been misunderstood. Turkey Unveiled is the only book in many years to attempt to fill a gap in perception with regard to this extremely complex country, and this paperback edition includes an epilogue that brings the book totally up to date, with coverage of the most recent developments in Turkey.

Throughout the last generation Turkey has opened up to the outside world, increasingly revealing a pluralistic and dynamic society. The authors, who speak fluent Turkish and have reported from Turkey for over a decade, provide a rich mosaic of contemporary Turkey and its formative past. The strengths and weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian tragedy, the ongoing Kurdish struggle, and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, are all here. They also provide portraits of new leaders who have broken taboos and ushered in new freedoms at a time when other forces attempt to pull Turkey back into the MiddLe Eastern vortex. Hugh and Nicole Pope, combining analysis with understanding, make recent developments in Turkey intelligible for both the general reader and the millions of visitors welcomed by a burgeoning tourist industry.

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Review:

This book campaigns with great clarity and vigour against our ignorance and bewilderment... TURKEY UNVEILED is a responsible and well-balanced book that neither takes sides nor shirks important issues... it is rich in anecdote and observation, and manages to be affectionate and respectful, but highly critical, at the same time' - Louis de Bernieres, Observer Review 'One of the best accounts of Turkey's recent political history' - Orhan Pamuk, Times Literary Supplement 'A first-class guide to [Turkey's] political history; it will quickly take its place as the best general survey of modern Turkish politics in English' - Sunday Telegraph 'An outstanding, masterly and lucid account of the Turkish republic since its foundation in 1923. I shall be very surprised if it does not remain the foremost political introduction to Turkey for several years to come' - David McDowall, author of A Modern History of the Kurds 'Excellent... penetrating in its analysis' - Independent 'A lively read, full of sure-footed analysis and attention to comic as well as lurid detail' - Guardian

From the Author:

This light, well-produced U.S. paperback edition includes a new postscript that brings the story up to date to the middle of the year 2000.

This book is aimed at the general reader and is full of fast-flowing personal experience. But the facts have been rigorously checked and many people have told us they use it as a reference book.

It is also increasingly popular, we hear, as a readable introduction to Middle East politics in university courses.

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