Turkey in Transition

Author: Christodoulos C. Yiallourides
Date: 1997 - Athens
Publisher: Sideris ISBN: 960-08-0104-5

This book examines the crisis of values and identity that Turkey has been experiencing over the past few years, being split between a more European direction and an increasingly anachronistic Islamic future. The crisis has gone as far as to threaten the principles set by Mustafa Kemal and his disciples. When the Islamist government of Necmetin Erbakan took office, this tension increased with uncertain consequences for the West. The book attempts to answer these questions and offer a way out of the current impasse in Turkey.