ABSTRACT

The authors put issues relevant to Turkey today – such as consolidating democracy, dealing with economic development issues, improving its human rights record and its foreign policy – in an historical context, allowing comparisons with other late developers in the world and reflecting the complexity of Turkish political and socio-economic developments. Turkey also argues that the modernization process that started in the nineteenth century, with all its elements including secularization and Westernization, has taken root.

chapter 2|44 pages

Politics in the Turkish Republic

chapter 3|20 pages

The Turkish economy

chapter 4|46 pages

Turkey in world affairs