Machine generated contents note: Political Developments in Turkey, 1950-70 -- Turkish Elections of 1957 -- Domestic Politics -- Recent Political Developments in Turkey and their Social Background -- Reflections on the Social Background of the Turkish Revolution of 1960 -- Evolution of the Turkish Political System and the Changing Meaning of Modernity, Secularism and Islam (1876-1945) -- Military and Politics in Turkey, 1960-64: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of a Revolution -- Turkish Democracy at Impasse: Ideology, Party Politics and the Third Military Intervention -- Turkish Left -- Military Interventions: Army-Civilian Relations in Turkey Before and After 1980 -- Socialism and the Labor Party of Turkey -- Impact of the People's Houses on the Development of Communication in Turkey (1931-1951) -- Omer Seyfeddin and the Transformation of Turkish Thought -- Language in Search of a Nation: Turkish in the Nation-State -- Social Environment and Literature. The Reflection of the Young Turk Era (1908-1918) in the Literary Work of Omer Seyfeddin (1884-1920) -- Contemporary Turkish Literature -- Turkish Foreign Policy: Some Introductory Remarks -- Muslim Minority in the Balkans -- Role of Turkey and Iran in Incorporating the Former Soviet Republics into the World System -- Roots of Kazakh Nationalism: Ethnicity, Islam or Land? -- Turks in America -- Civil Rights of the Muslims of the Balkans -- Turks of Bulgaria: The Struggle for National-Religious Survival of a Muslim Minority -- Sociopolitical Environment Conditioning the Foreign Policy of the Central Asian States.
Summary
"This book comprises a collection of articles and essays published in a variety of journals during the past decades, which seek to identify and analyze the main factors in Turkish politics. Political parties, military interventions, international relations and cultural developments are given wide coverage alongside studies on literature."--Jacket
