The History of Turkey : : Grandeur and Grievance / / Maurus Reinkowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Reinkowski, Maurus,
• MitwirkendeR: Walsh, William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)

A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatürk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the cities and the military coups in the second half of the twentieth century, up to Recep Tayyip Erdoğans electoral autocracy since the 2010s. This book makes us understand Turkey’s historical trajectory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the fate of its various communities and ethnic groups-in particular Alevis and Kurds-and argues that a particular trait of Turkish political culture is its constant fluctuation between confidence and contention, grandeur and grievance.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Farewell to the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter 2: The Kemalist Republic, 1923–1950 -- Chapter 3: Precarious Pluralism, 1950–1980 -- Chapter 4: The Promise of Islamic Conservatism, 1980–2013 -- Chapter 5: The Road to Another Republic, 2013 to the Present -- Update on Turkey in the Years 2021–2023 -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Map: Turkey and its neighbors -- Index of Names -- Index of Geographic Names