A Brief History of Türkiye
About This Novel
On April 16, 2017, Turkey's referendum on constitutional amendments ended. The people agreed to change the prime ministerial system to a presidential system, giving the president greater power, causing an uproar around the world. Why does a country's constitutional reform affect the world? What impact will the political changes in Türkiye have on world politics? The famous historian Norman Stone started writing 1,000 years ago and narrated the vicissitudes of Turkey's past. In a few words, he wrote from the Seljuks in Anatolia in the 11th century to Turkey's application to join the European Union in the 21st century, from the Ottoman Turkish Empire to the Republic of Turkey. He also made an in-depth analysis of the post-World War I Turkey that was full of turmoil and conflicts due to factors such as East and West, religion, tradition, and modernization, and even affected the country's positioning. Only by understanding Turkey's rise and fall, national awakening, religious resistance, etc. Can you understand why Turkey, a country at the junction of Europe and Asia, has become an "Eastern problem" in the past century.
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A common problem with British people writing history
The biggest common problem of Europeans, especially the British, in writing history is that they like to list all kinds of complicated names of people, places, and book titles. It is difficult to grasp the main line when reading. This book can hardly be used as a popular reading, so that I, a non-scholar, can learn historical knowledge that can be understood by me.
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Official(1)Scraped 4d ago
A common problem with British people writing history
The biggest common problem of Europeans, especially the British, in writing history is that they like to list all kinds of complicated names of people, places, and book titles. It is difficult to grasp the main line when reading. This book can hardly be used as a popular reading, so that I, a non-scholar, can learn historical knowledge that can be understood by me.
