A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cleavages along secular-religious lines, ethnicity, and social class. This chronological narrative focuses on how the process of urbanization and industrialization has led to social mobilization and population movements.
History of Turkey since pre WWI, with political, economic, social and religious trends examined. Interesting view of a Moslem, democratic (between military coups) country at the crossroad between Europe and Asia.