Crescent and star : Turkey between two worlds / Stephen Kinzer.

By: Kinzer, Stephen, 1951-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2001 ©2001Description: xi, 252 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0374131430 (hardback)Other title: Turkey between two worldsSubject(s): Civil society -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century | Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Turkey -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century | Turkey -- Armed Forces -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century | Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryLOC classification: DR576 .K56 2001
Contents:
Note on Turkish pronunciation -- Preface to the 2008 edition -- Meze -- Dreaming in Turkish -- Meze -- The hero -- Meze -- Call to prayer -- Meze -- Ghosts -- Meze -- TheKurdish puzzle -- Meze -- Freedom rising -- Meze -- Guardians -- Meze -- Death by earthquake -- Meze -- Strategic depth -- Meze -- The prize -- Meze
Summary: For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk", and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's compelling report on the truth about this nation of contradictions - posed between Europe and Asia, caught between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. Will this vibrant country succeed in becoming a great democratic state? This book makes it clear why Turkey is posed to become "the most audacious nation of the twenty-first century."
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Includes index.

Note on Turkish pronunciation -- Preface to the 2008 edition -- Meze -- Dreaming in Turkish -- Meze -- The hero -- Meze -- Call to prayer -- Meze -- Ghosts -- Meze -- TheKurdish puzzle -- Meze -- Freedom rising -- Meze -- Guardians -- Meze -- Death by earthquake -- Meze -- Strategic depth -- Meze -- The prize -- Meze

For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk", and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's compelling report on the truth about this nation of contradictions - posed between Europe and Asia, caught between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. Will this vibrant country succeed in becoming a great democratic state? This book makes it clear why Turkey is posed to become "the most audacious nation of the twenty-first century."

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