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# Turkey: A Modern History (International Library of Human Geography)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The best available option in English
  

*by S***M on Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2021*

Scholarly. Some typos. But also the most thorough and detailed survey of modern Turkish history out there. Your other options are either written by journalists (low-brow and emotional) or political scientists (jargon-riddled and lightweight). This is the best book for the serious student of Turkey.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Something Old, Something New
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2005*

Erik Zurcher has done a service to all who may have an interest in recent history of Turkey, filling a much-needed gap.  This is the second revised edition of the original 93 publication.  It expands even more on the recent and more modern history in great detail. It is a nice compliment to Bernard Lewis' "Emergence of Modern Turkey".  Zurcher has done a lot more than just reposting known history from other traditional sources.  There is much new insight and analysis.  Most of it is balanced, but he still has failed to refrain from "recommending" a "multi-national" state "solution" to the Kurdish "problem".  As if there is any possibility of it, or as if, after all he has researched and explained about modern Turkey, he would not know, better than anyone else that the unitary nature of the state is what has enabled it to exist in the first place.  Given all their ethnic mixes, how often does one encounter a successful model of such a "state" in Europe or Eastern Europe or Middle East?  Why such an enlightened solution is rarely pushed ahead in other similar situations, is a mystery.  Germany still has to this day, purely ethnic based citizenship laws for example.  Besides, why is a democracy that guarantees all individual freedoms to all citizens and makes no distinction among them is still found lacking?Though he occasionally acknowledges the long history of parliamentary and constitutional rule in Turkey, the judicious and brutally honest study of all the blemishes and imperfections of Turkish democracy throughout decades, creates or more like helps propagate the idea that Turks are in general still not comfortable with the concept of democracy, or that they still do not "get" it.  It would have put things in better perspective if Zurcher for example had briefly mentioned what was going on in Europe through 20s, 30s and 40s and even 50s while Turkish democracy one way or another managed to stay on track.While history of various political parties and their roles has been very well covered, not all topics of importance have received the same attention.  Turkey's EU vocation is treated somewhat superficially for example.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Boring history of a country that should be interesting
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2013*

This was a subject that interested me, but it turns out that the history of Turkey after the fall of the Ottoman Empire is rather boring.  This book devolves into a dry discussion of politics without much discussion of culture or leading personalities.  The towering figure of Ataturk is given surprisingly cursory treatment.  The more recent history of Turkey, from 1990 to the present, was a bit more interesting, as it impinges on current events, but overall this book was hardly an example of outstanding historical writing.

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