Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952

Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952
Author: Ekavi Athanassopoulou
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 113631685X

This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American and British security considerations toward the region evolved between 1947 and 1952 and the impact Turkey's pressure had on American and British security thinking.

The Politics of Turkish Democracy

The Politics of Turkish Democracy
Author: John M. VanderLippe
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0791483371

One of the most significant yet least known periods of modern Turkish history is that of Turkey's second president, İsmet İnönü. Following the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1938, Turkish politicians and intellectuals struggled to redefine Kemalist notions of modernity and democracy, Islam and secularization, the role of the state, and Turkey's place in the world. The Politics of Turkish Democracy examines İnönü's presidency (1938–1950), which developed amid the crises of World War II and the Cold War, global economic and political transformation, and economic and social change within Turkey. John M. VanderLippe analyzes the political discourse of the era and argues that İnönü was a pivotal figure who played the decisive role in Turkey's transition to a multi-party political system.