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Article: THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC: TURKEY AS A PIVOTAL STATE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD.(Book review)
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- International Journal on World Peace
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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THE NEW TURKISH REPUBLIC: TURKEY AS A PIVOTAL STATE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD.
Graham E. Fuller
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008
196pp., paper, $14.95
Graham Fuller has written a very useful analysis of the foreign policy options facing Turkey. Basically, there have been three Turkish Republics. The first was created by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk after the First World War. He built on late reform movements within the Ottoman Empire but centered all his attention on the modernization of Turkey. The Arab lands which had belonged to the Ottomans were under the control of France and England while Arabia was taken over by ...