Description
Book SynopsisA radical history of Turkey, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day, rejecting traditional narratives of a 'clash of civilisations'
Trade Review'Wrests us out of the stale narratives of Islam vs. secularism, offering a new way of understanding one of the most important questions in Turkey today: why despite so much democratic promise, its fundamental political structure returns to authoritarianism again and again' -- Suzy Hansen, author of Notes on a Foreign Country (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)
'Informative and authoritative Karaveli's analysis of Turkish politics should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand Turkey's relentless retreat from democracy' -- Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, The University of Michigan, and author of 'They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else': A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton, 2015)
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Timeline
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. A Pattern of Violence
2. Kemalism and the Left
3. Capitalist Foundation
4. How the Right Won the People
5. Social Democratic Hope
6. Vengeance of the Right
7. The Rise of the Islamists
Epilogue: Class, Identity and Democracy
Afterword: Attacking the Kurds - The 'Return' of Kemalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
