Under The Shadow: Rage And Revolution In Modern Turkey

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Turkey stands at the crossroads of the Middle East--caught between the West & ISIS Syria & Russia & governed by an increasingly forceful leader Acclaimed writer Kaya Genc has been covering his country for the past decade In Under the Shadow he meets activists from both sides of Turkey's political divide Gezi park protestors who fought tear gas & batons to transform their country's future & supporters of Erdogan's conservative vision who are no less passionate in their activism He talks to artists & authors to ask whether the New Turkey is a good place to for them to live & work He interviews censored journalists & conservative writers both angered by what has been going on in their country He meets Turkey's Wall Street types who take to the streets despite the enormity of what they can lose as well as the young Islamic entrepreneurs who drive Turkey's economy While talking to Turkey's angry young people Genc weaves in historical stories visions & mythologies showing how Turkey's progressives & conservatives take their ideological roots from two political movements born in the Ottoman Empire the Young Turks & the Young Ottomans two groups of intellectuals who were united in their determination to make their country more democratic He shows a divided society coming to terms with the 21st Century & in doing so gets to the heart of the compelling conflicts between history & modernity in the Middle East