Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey: The Menderes Era and Its Demise Contributor(s): Pelt, Mogens (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848857780 ISBN-13: 9781848857780 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $173.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - History | Military - General - History | Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
Dewey: 956.103 |
LCCN: 2014415730 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 312 pages |
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Publisher Description: Adnan Menderes' election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the country, taking over Kemal Ataturk's political heirs, the People's Republican Party (CHP), and challenging the Kemalist elite's monopoly on the control of state institutions and society itself. However, this period was short-lived. In 1960, Turkey's army staged a coup d'etat and Menderes was hanged the following year. Here, Mogens Pelt beings by examining the era of the rule of the Democratic Party, and what led to its downfall. Among the chief accusations raised against Menderes by the army was that he had undermined the principles of the founder of modern Turkey, Ataturk, and that he had exploited religion for political purposes. Military Intervention and a Crisis Democracy in Turkey furthermore, and crucially, examines the legacy of the military intervention that brought this era of democratic rule to an end. |