トルコ共和国は、近年EUに加盟したどの国よりも大きな経済規模を誇る国です。イスタンブールだけでハンガリーやチェコよりも大きな経済規模を持ち、世界の石油やガスの多くを運ぶパイプラインを有しています。文化的にも、また歴史・地理的にも、トルコはイスラムと西欧民主主義、欧州と中東を結ぶ懸け橋の役割を担う、戦略的な位置にあります。
本書は、20年にわたりトルコに滞在し、エコノミスト誌やタイム誌など多くの有力メディアにトルコに関する記事を寄稿してきたアンドリュー・フィンケルが執筆を担当し、オスマン帝国、ケマル・アタテュルク(1881-1938年)による世俗的な民族主義革命、アタテュルクの遺産の守護を自認する軍による度重なる政治介入といった歴史的背景をもとに、トルコの複雑な現状を簡潔に解き明かします。その中で、この国の驚くべき姿を明らかにしています。例えば、非国家主義政党のリーダーたちは、死刑廃止を決議することでEU加盟に向けた道を歩み始めましたが、それは有罪判決を受けたクルド人分離主義運動の指導者に猶予を与えることを意味していました。ほかにも、世俗主義的なリベラル派が、宗教的な過激さを助長して投獄されたことのある首相を支持するなどといったことは、トルコ以外のどこで起こりえるだろうか、と著者は問いかけます。クルド人問題から経済政策、イラクにおけるトルコの役割、そしてEU加盟に向けた模索まで、このユニークで重要な国の過去と現在を浮かび上がらせます。
Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: culturally, historically, and geographically, it is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, Turkey straddles both Europe and Asia. And it boasts an economy larger than any of the states that have joined the EU in recent years-Istanbul alone has a bigger economy than that of Hungary or the Czech Republic-with pipelines that carry much of the world's oil and gas.
Andrew Finkel has spent twenty years in Turkey writing about the country for a number of leading news media such as The Economist and Time magazine. In this concise book, Finkel unravels Turkey's complexities, setting them against the historical background of the Ottoman Empire, the secular nationalist revolution led by Kemal Ataturk, and repeated political interventions by the military, which sees itself as the guardian of Ataturk's legacy. Finkel reveals a nation full of surprises. Turkey's labyrinthine politics often lead to such unexpected outcomes as leaders of the untra-nationalist party starting on the road to EU membership by voting to scrap the death penalty-which also meant giving a reprieve to the convicted leader of the Kurdish separatist movement. And where else but in Turkey, Finkel writes, would secularist liberals have supported a prime minister who was once jailed for promoting religious extremism?
From the Kurdish question to economic policy, from Turkey's role in Iraq to its quest for EU membership, Finkel illuminates the past and present of this unique, and uniquely consequential, country.
Introduction
1) People and geography
2) The break with the Ottoman past
3) The post-war era
4) Democracy and civil rights
5) Foreign policy
6) Economy
7) Contemporary politics
8) Islam and nationalism
9) Society and culture
10) Epilogue: Turkey finding its voice
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
"a succinct, readable and expert briefing on the modern country." - Michael Kerr, Daily Telegraph
"a valuable introduction to students, travellers and whoever rightly thinks Turkey a fascinating story." - Gilles Dorronsoro, International Affairs
"There are only a few people in Turkey who can combine the critical eye of the outsider with the compassion of the insider. Finkel is one of them." -- Joost Lagendijk, former joint chairman of the Turkey-EU Parliamentarians delegation and Senior Advisor at the Istanbul Policy Center of Sabanci University
ISBN : 9780199733040
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