Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG - Brossura

Finkel, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 019973304X ISBN 13: 9780199733040

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012

Riassunto

Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: the only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, it straddles both Europe and Asia. Turkey is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. In this concise introduction, Andrew Finkel, who has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for publications such as The Economist and Time magazine, unravels Turkey's complexities. He sets the complications and transformations of present-day Turkey against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Atatürk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Atatürk's legacy. Finkel reveals a nation full of surprises. Where else but in Turkey, Finkel writes, would secularist liberals have supported a prime minister who was once jailed for promoting religious extremism? From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this unique, and uniquely consequential, country.

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Recensione:

a succinct, readable and expert briefing on the modern country. (Michael Kerr, Daily Telegraph)

a valuable introduction to students, travellers and whoever rightly thinks Turkey a fascinating story. (Gilles Dorronsoro, International Affairs)

L'autore:

Andrew Finkel is a journalist who has been based in Turkey for twenty years. His reporting has appeared in The Economist, Time, The Daily Telegraph, The Times of London, and CNN.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 019973304X
• ISBN 13: 9780199733040
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224