History of Türkiye - From 1960 to Present

The History of Türkiye from 1960 to the Present tells the history of a period that is generally not comprehensively addressed by the historiographical tradition. In addition to decisive topics such as coup, militarism, left, nationalism, Kurdish issue and political Islam, the book also covers the political, economic, social and cultural transformations and important thresholds experienced between 1960 and 2014. Particular attention is paid to historical turning points where various institutions, debates or conflicts emerged; The parties to the events and the prominent actors take their places on the stage to complete the picture. Newspaper, magazine archives, daily newspapers, memoirs, institutional histories and research that may clarify the details of the period are included in the text as boxes and constitute references that can be read separately.


"The experiences left over from those years, as well as the existence of a voluminous corpus, played an important role in the emergence of this book. Because, unlike history texts from many periods, the events, people and institutions that are the subject of this book are largely our contemporaries... Therefore, the 'period' of this period History is also a history of experiences and observations, and in this context, it becomes the history of 'what we consider important' and 'what we consider decisive'. In this respect, the text we have written has significant advantages in terms of historiography, provided that the concerns and efforts mentioned at the beginning are essential. "It uses the possibility of a way of writing and seeing that can provide
-SUAVİ AYDIN / YÜKSEL TAŞKIN-
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 555

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: İletişim Publishing

First Print Year: 2014

Language Turkish