Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
By Stephen Kinzer

Price $20.99
Release Date: 09/09/02
Serial Number: Kinzer1

Description
No nation was ever founded with greater revolutionary zeal than the Turkish Republic, nor has any undergone more sweeping change in such a short time. For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk," and many people still think of Turkey as exotic and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's report on the truth about this nation of contradictions — poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. Will this vibrant country, Kinzer asks, become the world's first Islamic democracy? Crescent and Star makes clear why Turkey might -- or might not -- become "the most audaciously successful nation of the twenty-first century." Kinzer vividly describes Turkey's captivating delights as he smokes a water pipe, searches for the ruins of lost civilizations, watches a camel fight, and discovers its greatest poet; he reports on political trials and on his own arrest by Turkish soldiers when investigating the army's campaigns against Kurdish guerillas. His compelling book shows us why Turkey could become "the most audaciously successful nation of the twenty-first century."

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