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The Making of Modern Turkey

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Routledge, Nov 1, 2002 - Political Science - 272 pages

Turkey is the first modern secular state in a predominantly Islamic Middle East. In this major textbook, Feroz Ahmad provides a thorough examination of the political, social and economic processes which led to the formation of a new Turkey.

After a chapter on "the Ottoman Legacy", the book covers the period since the revolution of 1908 and the development of the new Turkey. Successive chapters chart the progress through the single-party regime set up by Ataturk (1923-1945), the multi-party period (1945-1960) and the three military interventions of 1960, 1971 and 1980. The book ends in 1989 with the election of Turgat Ozal as president. In contrast to most current analyses of modern Turkey, the author emphasises the socio-economic changes rather than continuities as the motor of politics.

  

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It is a really good book to read for an introduction to Turkish Political Structure, but it mainly based on 'former Turkish history thesis' and has a Kemalist view. Erik Jan Zürcher provides us more liberal and critical approach to Turkish politics. Read full review

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Page 3 - Cabinet; and the separation of the medrese from the §eyhiilislamate and their administration by the ministry of education. With the defeat of the Ottoman empire in the First World War and the loss of the Arab lands a new situation arose. For all practical purposes Turkey now consisted of the Anatolian peninsula. Part one of the Islamic formula — its function as a link between Turks and Arabs — could now be jettisoned. It is remarkable, however, that Mustafa Kemal did not immediately...

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Middle East The making of modern Turkey. By Feroz Ahmad. London: Routledge. 1993. 252pp. Index. Pb.: /12.99. ISBN 0 415 07836 9. Mustafa Kemal's attempt to ...
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The Making of Modern Turkey Book by Feroz Ahmad; 1993. Read The Making of Modern Turkey at Questia library.
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The Making of Modern Turkey - Feroz Ahmad - ISBN 9780415078368
This textbook covers the politics, economy, military developments and society of Turkey, from 1908 through the 1990s
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Feroz Ahmad, "From Empire to Nation 1908-1923," chapter in The Making of Modern Turkey by Feroz Ahmad, Routledge, 1993, pp: 31-51. ...
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The Making of Modern Turkey. New York: Routledge, 1993. Ahmad, Feroz. The Turkish Experiment in Democracy, 1950-1975. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, ...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's leadership of the independence war ...
The Making of Modern Turkey. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415078351. Barber, Noel (1988). Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent ...
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It may be supplemented by two recent works, Feroz Ahmad's The Making of Modern Turkey and Erik J. Zürcher's Turkey: A Modern History . ...
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The Making of Modern Turkey. New York: Routledge, 1993. Akin, Erkan, and Omer Karasapan. "Turkey's Tarikats," Middle East Report, No. 153, July-August 1988, ...
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The Rise and Fall of Modern Turkey
The 1993 textbook by Lewis' pupil Feroz Ahmad (which I have mentioned earlier), The Making of Modern Turkey is a prime example of the survival of the ...
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About the author (2002)

Feroz Ahmad is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Boston, Massachusetts. A widely respected expert on Middle Eastern history, he lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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