Turkey and the West
Changing Political and Cultural Identities
Published on 31. December 1993
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-85043-611-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since Turkey's formal application for full membership of the European Community, the debate over whether it belongs in Europe or in the Islamic Middle East has acquired new significance. This book looks at Turkey's evolving sense of identity in the light of recent political and social change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 132 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-611-9 (9781850436119)
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Persons
Content
Political culture as a dimension of compatibility, Metin Heper; officers - westernization and democracy, Ali L. Karaosmanoglu; bureaucrats - persistent elitists, Metin Heper; journalists - cautious democrats, Sahin Alpay; novelists - new cosmopolitanism versus social pluralism, Ahmet O. Evin; politicians - populist democracy, Ilter Turan; academics - the West in the discourse of university reform, Ayse Oncu; businessmen - democratic stability, Selim Ilkin; engineers - "technocratic democracy", Nilufer Gole; workers in Europe - interactions with the host society, Yasemin Soysal; Islamist intellectuals - revolt against industry and technology, Binnaz Toprak; small worlds and grand projects, Ayse Oncu.