This book examines Turkey's unstable and contradictory modern history, as Turks are faced with joining the West and preserving their own culture and the emergence of Islamicism contributes to the question of safety

Turkey's modern history has been full of instability and continuing contradictions. The nature of national identity and its relationship to the state continues to be an issue and Turks are still faced with the conflict between the twin goals of "joining the West" and preserving their own cultural forms. The emergence of Islamicism as a political ideology has helped to shape politics in Turkey, as it has had to compete in the political market place with other, secularist, parties and to play the game according to the rules of secular democracy, rather than a millenarian revolutionary vision. However, there are growing doubts as to whether secular constitutional democracy is safely anchored within the system of government in the country.

Labour migration and economic conditions in 19th-century Anatolia, Christopher Clay
the Indian sojourn of Abdulhak Hamid Syed, Tanvir Wasti
collective action and the Turkish revolution - towards a framework for the social history of the Ataturk Era, 1923-38, Gavin D. Brockett
the people's houses
and the cult of peasantry in Turkey, M. Asim Karaomerlioglu
the ideology of the "Kadro" (cadre) movement - a patrotic leftist movement in Turkey, Mustafa Turkes
the programme of
the Nationalist Action Party of Turkey - an iron hand in a velvet glove? E. Burak Arikan
Ottoman policy during the Bulgarian independence crisis, 1908-9 - Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria at the outset of the Young Turk revolution, Hasan Unal

the activities of the union for the liberation of Ukraine in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Hakan Kirmli
diplomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainine
Democratic Republic, 1918-21, Hakan Kirmli
the never-ending story - Turkey and the European Union, Meltem Muftuler-Bac
double-faced state - political patronage and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey, Metin Heper and E. Fuat Keyman.