A Changing Turkey: The Challenge to Europe and the United States

Turkey is a longstanding ally of the United States and Europe. After the demise of the Soviet empire, Turkey's strategic importance has changed but not diminished. Today Turkey is facing a completely different foreign and security policy environment. However, Turkey is also undergoing extraordinary internal change. Many established political truths of the Republic's seventy-five-year-long tradition are increasingly questioned by a growing part of its people. Above all, there is the rise of political Islam and the ensuing clash of ideologies between "secularists" and "Islamists" as well as the debate about Turkey's "Kurdish reality." Turkey's allies will have to respond to this development by adapting their policies. Nothing less than a re-evaluation and, eventually, a re-orientation in relations with both the United States and Europe is required if Turkey is to remain anchored in the West. This book undertakes a comprehensive overview and analysis of Turkey's internal and external changes and provides elements of a new European and American policy toward a key strategic partner.

Author: Heinz Kramer
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 03/01/2000
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.00w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780815750239

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 35
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 978

About the Author

Heinz Kramer, one of Germany's leading analysts of Turkish affairs, is a senior research analyst at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Ebenhausen.