Debating Turkish Modernity Civilization, Nationalism, and the EEC [Paperback]

Debating Turkish Modernity explores how Turks spoke about the prospect of joining the European Economic Community between 1959 and 1980.Debating Turkish Modernity explores how Turks spoke about the prospect of joining the European Economic Community between 1959 and 1980. It argues that these debates created deep, bitter divides among Turks by bringing up long-standing questions about Turkey's past and its ambivalent relationship with Europe.Debating Turkish Modernity explores how Turks spoke about the prospect of joining the European Economic Community between 1959 and 1980. It argues that these debates created deep, bitter divides among Turks by bringing up long-standing questions about Turkey's past and its ambivalent relationship with Europe.Debating Turkish Modernity describes the opening act of Turkeys half century bid to join the European Community. Between 1959 and 1980, Turks from all walks of life weighed in on their prospective integration into Europe. This book details how these Turks made sense of the project of European Unification and how they spoke about it. It argues that Turkeys EEC debates, by resurrecting past questions over Turkeys relationship to Europe, became the principle forum where Turks of the Second Republic defined who they were, where they came from, and where they were going.Introduction; 1. Joining civilization; 2. The T0P of the iceberg; 3. Voices from a threatened nation; 4. The additional protocol: a 'national' problem; 5. Intervention, invasion, isolation; 6. From periphery to core; Conclusion.'D?_emeci's meticulously written and lucid book is an excellent historical study that calls for the active imagination of the reader. With a skilful hermeneutical analysis of historical events it invites us to rethink the meanings of modernity through different logics and historical-conceptual sites within which civilization, nation, and Europeanness have been dialogically imagined and debated by Turkish elites. The book powerfully bringl/