Republic of Turkey
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- ISBN 9780755646388
- Dimensions: 169 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking the period from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 to the present day, this book examines Turkey’s political trajectory, its economic developments and downturns and its positioning in the international arena. Breaking away from the Cold War paradigm and its focus on military coups and international security as well as approaches to Turkey which over emphasise the Ottoman past, this book also engages with cultural and social aspects of the period.
Following a clear chronology, the book charts the rise of the Turkish nation-state, Turkey in the Second World War, the beginning of multi-party politics, the political plurality of the 1960s, the upheavals of the 1970s, the neo-liberal politics of the 1980s, the crumbling of the 1990s and the religious politics and presidentialism of the 2000s. Each period is divided into three sections and each chapter is accompanied by boxes inserted into the text which provide more extensive information on one particular aspect, such as cinema, political satire and social media.
The book takes readers through the period providing both a clear chronological structure and an understanding of each period both from the perspective of its political and economic development and its cultural and social concerns.
Ebru Boyar is a Professor in the Department of International Relations, Middle East Technical University,Turkey. Her research focuses on Ottoman and Turkish republican social and diplomatic history. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and together with Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010). Among her edited volumes are Middle Eastern and North African Societies (2018), and Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (Brill, 2023), both edited with Kate Fleet.
Kate Fleet is an economic and social historian of the Ottoman empire and the Turkish Republic, and Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State: The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey (1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (2010), co-authored with Ebru Boyar. She has also edited together with Ebru Boyar Middle Eastern and North African Societies (2018), and Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period (2023). She is an Executive Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three.
