Turkey and the Dilemma of EU Accession: When Religion Meets Politics
by Mirela Bogdani
I.B. Tauris, 228 pp., $92.00; $28.00 (paper)
The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey
by Banu Eligur
Cambridge University Press, 317 pp., $85.00
Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History, 1789–2007
by Carter Vaughn Findley
Yale University Press, 527 pp., $40.00; $30.00 (paper)
Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul
by Amy Mills
University of Georgia Press, 288 pp., $64.95; $24.95 (paper)
Politically Turkey has changed more in the last ten years than it did in the previous eighty. For generations the army was able to enforce strict secularism in the tradition of Ataturk, but a new ethos, more open to religious influence, has changed the terms of politics and public life. Turkey has emerged from the shadow of military power, a breakthrough of historic proportions. Whether it is moving toward an era of European-style freedom or simply trading one form of authoritarianism for another is unclear.
