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A review of 15 books that address various aspects of Turkish foreign policy, politics, & culture. An overview of Turkey's contemporary foreign relations with the US is presented, emphasizing the Turkish state's wavering support for US military strikes against Iraq during the Second Gulf War. Topics addressed in the sundry texts include the 20th-century history of Turkish foreign policy; economic, political & cultural developments that will likely shape Turkey's 21st-century foreign policy; the international community's response to Turkish foreign policy; the effects of Kemalism upon Turkish foreign policy; opposition to the US's support for creating a natural gas & oil pipeline from Azerbaijan to Turkey; the Turkish state's relations with the Middle East region's Kurdish population; the perception of Turkey as a successful example of how post-Soviet nations should develop; the existence of anti-Semitism in WWII-era Turkey; the widening economic & cultural gap between different classes in present-day Turkey; the emergence of both secular social organizations & a secular Islamic tradition in the nation; the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire & multiple Balkans countries; & international developments that expedited the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. J. W. Parker

A comparative analysis of development in Turkey & the West is offered in the context of reviewing 32 books on various aspects of Turkish politics, economics, & culture, the majority published over the last few years. Topics include (1) the relationship between Turkey, the US, the EU, & Greece; (2) the impact of globalization on Turkey & changes in its foreign policy; (3) the Cyprus problem; (4) Turkey's role in the Middle East; (5) the history of Turkish-Jewish relations; (6) journalism in Turkey & Greece; (7) Ottoman-Turkish political history; (8) contemporary Turkish culture & the role of religion within it; (9) relations between Turkish ethnic groups; (10) the history of Turkish economic mismanagement over the last 50 years; & (11) the revolutionary activities of the Young Turks. The books include expanded doctoral dissertations, edited collections, & conference reports, & are authored by academic historians, anthropologists, & economists, current & former ambassadors & other political leaders, military strategists, & journalists. K. Hyatt Stewart

In this review essay, the author discusses a large number of books about Turkey that have been recently published or reissued. The books deal with a wide variety of topics, including Turkish reform movements, Turkish relations with other ethnic groups (especially Kurds & Jews), the sociology of Istanbul, the politics of Islamic culture, the Young Turks' rise to power, satirical political cartoons, Turkey's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, maps in Turkish school textbooks, the evolution of secularism in Turkey, the relationship between Kemalist secularism & religion, the writings of Ottoman reformers, the economic & social history of the Ottoman Empire, the role of women in the slave trade, the significance of women's fashions, advertising for Muslim women in the late Ottoman era, the nationalist underground in Istanbul, Greece's failure to annex Turkey's Aegean coastlands after WWI, & images of Turkey in Western literature. 39 References. A. Funderburg