A Coup in Turkey - A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Seal is a travel writer, teacher, broadcaster and tour guide with a life-long fascination forTurkey. His first book, A Fez of the Heart , was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors' Club , The Wreck at Sharpnose Point , and Santa: A Life , which was Radio 4's Book of the Week. His most recent book is Meander: East to West Down a Turkish River. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph , Sunday Times , Cond é Nast Traveller , the Weekend Australian and the New York Times , among others. He also organises and leads cultural tours to Turkey (www.somewherewonderful.com). He lives in Bath. Klappentext In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the 'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country's founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular amibitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division. --inside cover. Zusammenfassung The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron'Read this book if you're interested in Turkey.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Seal, Seal Jeremy
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781784741754
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-175-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, TRAVEL / Middle East / Turkey, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Political activism, Travel writing, Turkey, Political leaders & leadership, Social and cultural history, c 1960 to c 1969, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political leaders and leadership, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution