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Turkey Unveiled: Ataturk and After


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Éditeur : John Murray Date & Lieu : 1995, London
Préface : Pages : 378
Traduction : ISBN : 0-7195-5653-8
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 160x240 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Pop. Tur. N° 4069Thème : Général

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Turkey Unveiled: Ataturk and After

Turkey Unveiled: Ataturk and After

Nicole Pope
Hugh Pope

John Murray

What is Turkey reallʃy like and what does its future hold? The country’s detractors speak of military coups, torture and a looming Islamic threat on Europe’s doorstep. Its friends see a blunt and hospitable people, a land rich in history and culture, and a strategic Western ally on the flank of NATO. These views are not necessarily contradictory: as the Turks themselves say with a shrug, ‘This is Turkey.’ Theirs is a large and complex country whose economy is booming and whose position, at the crossroads of a Eurasian region steadily recovering from Cold War divisions, guarantees a growing importance in world politics.
Nicole and Hugh Pope, who both speak fluent Turkish, have reported from Turkey and its neighbours for nine years, witnessed key events and interviewed most Turkish leaders, whether in power or in opposition. Here they provide a rich and many-faceted picture of today’s Turkey and its formative past: the strengths and weaknesses of the Ottomans, the Armenian tragedy, the Kurdish struggle and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
They examine too new leaders like the late Turgut Özal who have confidently broken taboos, ushered in new freedoms and led their formerly introverted country on to the international stage. They explain how the new Islamist-led government constitutes not a revolution but perhaps a fresh synthesis with the past. Above all, they provide fascinating and important insights into a country we need more than ever to understand.


Nicole Pope, who is Swiss and who worked previously with the Red Cross in Iraq and Lebanon, now reports for Le Monde and for international radio stations from Turkey.
Hugh Pope read Persian and Arabic at Oxford and over the past fifteen years has reported for The Independent, The Los Angeles Times, the BBC and Reuters on Turks, Kurds, Persians and Arabs in more than two dozen countries of the Muslim world. He has now opened a new bureau for The Wall Street Journal in Istanbul, reporting on Turkey, the Caucasus and Central Asia.


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Contents

Illustrations / ix
Acknowledgements / x
Maps / xii
Note on Turkish Spelling / xviii

Introduction / 1
1. Tangled Roots / 7
2. Ottoman Glory and Decline / 21
3. Turkey for the Turks / 36
4. Ataturk, Immortal Leader / 50
5. Walking the Tightrope / 70

6. A New Beginning / 84
7. The Army Shows Its Hand / 94
8. The Cyprus Disaster / 109
9. Wilderness Years / 126
10. The Generals Take Charge / 141

11. The Ozal Revolution / 158
12. A Bridge Too Far / 180
13. Ozal Stumbles / 198
14. A Place at the Feast / 218
15. The Kurdish Reality / 245

16. The Wolf and the Bear / 280
17. The filler Phenomenon / 302
18. A Turkish-Islamic Synthesis / 316

Conclusion / 339
Chronology / 349
Notes / 355
Bibliography 363
Index / 367




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