Five Years in Turkey

Five Years in Turkey
Author: Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1928
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

Crescent and Star

Crescent and Star
Author: Stephen Kinzer
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374531404

Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.

Living in Turkey

Living in Turkey
Author: Stephane Yerasimos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9780500282700

The rise and fall of great empires - Hittite, Byzantine, Ottoman - has brought a mosaic of influences to bear on Turkish design. 'Living in Turkey' draws aside a veil of privacy to lead us into Turkey’s carefully hidden interiors. We see houses that have evolved to suit local conditions and needs, from the earthen dwellings of Cappadocia to the stone masonry of Anatolia. In Istanbul, modern life is tinged with the colours of ancient cultures and past times. Old wooden buildings dream in huge gardens along the Bosphorus; angular modern apartments are softened by kilims and accessories; in every house are Turkish coffee-pots, handmade embroideries and coloured glass. Throughout, colour photography invites us to share in the enjoyment of these decorative marvels, bringing us closer to the design and architecture of this entrancing culture.

The Thirty-Year Genocide

The Thirty-Year Genocide
Author: Benny Morris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2019-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 067491645X

A Financial Times Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.” —Times Literary Supplement “Brilliantly researched and written...casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects...Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.” —Jacob Heilbrun, The Spectator Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population. Despite the dramatic swing from the Islamizing autocracy of the sultan to the secularizing republicanism of the post–World War I period, the nation’s annihilationist policies were remarkably constant, with continual recourse to premeditated mass killing, homicidal deportation, forced conversion, and mass rape. And one thing more was a constant: the rallying cry of jihad. While not justified under the teachings of Islam, the killing of two million Christians was effected through the calculated exhortation of the Turks to create a pure Muslim nation. “A subtle diagnosis of why, at particular moments over a span of three decades, Ottoman rulers and their successors unleashed torrents of suffering.” —Bruce Clark, New York Times Book Review

Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic

Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic
Author: Sylvia Kedourie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135266980

This collection examines the issues which - over the first 75 years of the Turkish Republic - have shaped, and will continue to influence, Turkey's foreign and domestic policy: the legacy of the Ottoman empire, the concept of citizenship, secular democracy, Islamicism and civil-military relations.

Turkey Decoded

Turkey Decoded
Author: Ann Dismorr
Publisher: Saqi Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

An in-depth examination of the first predominately Muslim EU candidate state.

The Turkey Ball

The Turkey Ball
Author: David Steinberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Balls (Parties)
ISBN: 9780843114560

Spend the evening with some stylish turkeys in this rollicking, rhyming story that chronicles an enchanted evening with a group of turkeys on their way to the social event of the season.

Turkey Unveiled

Turkey Unveiled
Author: Nicole Pope
Publisher: Duckworth Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011
Genre: Turkey
ISBN: 9780715643129

A History of Modern Turkey.