Turkey - What Everyone Needs to Know

Zusatztext a valuable introduction to students, travellers and whoever rightly thinks Turkey a fascinating story. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Ataturk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Ataturk'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 in Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know(R).What Everyone Needs to Know(R) is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. Zusammenfassung A concise and illuminating account of the politics, history, economics, and culture of Turkey, this book is essential for anyone who wants to know more about the country with roots in both Europe and the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Finkel, Finkel Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199733040
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973304-0
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 209 mm x 17 mm
• Series: What Everyone Needs to Know; What Everyone Needs to Know (P; What Everyone Needs to Know (R); What Everyone Needs To Know®; What Everyone Needs to Know (R); What Everyone Needs to Know(r); What Everyone Needs to Know (P
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Türkei : Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Turkey, Politics & government, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, Türkiye / Turkey