Turkey in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges, Threats

by Erik Cornell

Overview

Answers the questions: what is the background to issues in external and internal politics? What is the Turks' opinion on European and Turkish identity? On Cyprus? On the role of the generals? Why do human rights problems linger on? What is behind the Kurdish question? Is Turkey religiously split? What are the pros and cons of Turkish association with the EU?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136826764
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	487 KB

About the Author

Cornell, Erik

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Holy Roman Empire of the Islamic Nation; Chapter 3 Turkish Domestic Politics during the Republic; Chapter 4 Some Issues in Domestic Politics; Chapter 5 The Özal Era; Chapter 6 The Role of the Armed Forces in Domestic Politics; Chapter 7 The Protection of the Constitution vs Citizens' Rights; Chapter 8 The Problems of Human Rights in the Light of History; Chapter 9 Religious Affairs; Chapter 10 The Alevis: A Distinctively Turkish Religious Group; Chapter 11 The Intractable Kurdish Problem; Chapter 12 Guerrilla Warfare; Chapter 13 The Rise of the New Turkic Republics; Chapter 14 Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia; Chapter 15 Turkey and the Armenian Question; Chapter 16 Turkey's Path Towards the European Union;

Editorial Reviews

"An important contribution to the growing literature on contemporary Turkey" - Journal of Islamic Studies

'An important contribution to the growing literature on contemporary Turkey' - Journal of Islamic Studies

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