The transformation of Turkey : redefining state and society from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era / Fatma Müge Göçek.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-302) and index

Table of Contents; Introduction. 1. Surveying Contemporary Turkey: A Country of Social Tensions Rooted in the Past; 2. Ottoman Origins of the Armenian, Greek and Kurdish Challenges to Turkish Foreign Policy; 3. The Legacy of the Young Turk Revolution in Contemporary Turksih Politics; 4. Why is There Still a 'Sevres Syndrome'? An Analysis of Turkey's Uneasy Association with the West; 5. Silences in the Turkish Republican Past: An Analysis of Contemporary Turkish-Armenian Literature.6. Remembering the Past: How to Commemorate 24 April 19157. 7. In Search of Just Turks in the Collective Violence Committed Against the Armenians.

In 1923, the Modern Turkish Republic rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, proclaiming a new era in the Middle East. However, many of the contemporary issues affecting Turkish state and society today have their roots not only in the in the history of the republic, but in the historical and political memory of the state's imperial history. Here Fatma Muge Gocek draws on Turkey's Ottoman heritage and history to explore current issues of ethnicity and religion alongside Turkey's international position. This new perspective on history's influence on contemporary tensions in Turkey will contri.