In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces. This book considers the changing perspectives of the radical leftist movement towards the political role of the military in Turkey. It describes th…
This book considers the changing perspectives of the radical leftist movement towards the political role of the military in Turkey. Using a textual analysis of leftist groups, the author describes the development of the leftist movement in Turkey after the 1960 coup and explains…
"Few states in the modern world have had a less promising birth than Jordan. When in 1921 the Hashemite Emir Abdallah was recognized as the ruler of this romantic backwater of the former Ottoman Empire, it was sparsely populated, extremely poor, and widely regarded as ungovernab…