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The Kemalists : Islamic revival and the fate of secular Turkey /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaylan, Muammer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.
Subjects:
Kemalism.
Islam and secularism > Turkey.
Turkey > History > 20th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The time of troubles
  • The Anatolian
  • The colonel
  • The gray wolf
  • The adventures of Enver Pasha
  • Islam versus secularity
  • Early days in journalism
  • Dimo of the Pera Palace and other stories
  • The little governor and Robinson Crusoe
  • Five finger Cicero
  • The Shah, Churchill and Jackie Kennedy
  • The Cyprus crisis and Turco-Greek fracas
  • Marxists, Islamists and Ottoman nostalgia
  • Politics and an Ottoman princess
  • The Muslim brotherhood and old Sufi masters
  • The revolt of the PKK and water
  • A morning newspaper named Evening and the last days of Adnan Menderes
  • The tragedy at Gatwick, and the fall of Adnan Menderes
  • One newspaper and the destiny of a nation
  • The folding of Yeni Sabah
  • A rebel staff colonel and an ex-empress in a precinct
  • Reports from America
  • The moon shot, an old Soviet spy and hi jolly
  • A witches cauldron and nest of intrigues
  • The Turks and human rights
  • The time of the vultures
  • Did you say corruption? what corruption?
  • The Islamists and the Kemalists
  • The Operation Jailhouse and marxist terrorism
  • A crisis over the turban and Islamist terror
  • The party of God, the party of terror
  • Democracy with strings attached
  • Legacy of an empire
  • The Turks and the great game II
  • A return journey
  • Was Turgut Özal murdered?
  • A confused premier and Tansu Çiller's ducks
  • A victory for the Islamists
  • Islam's perfect man
  • Epilogue
  • Turkish cat and mouse game.