For a century now, the Western world has been treating Turkey as a typical case of a country culturally divided between Islam and the West. The book Turkey: the model of an authoritarian state it challenges this conventional historical narrative and highlights the dangers of seeing the historical events in the neighboring country as part of an ongoing war between the "westernized" state and the popular masses who defend tradition and religion.
Writer and journalist Halil Karaveli transcends the cultural categorizations that simplistically interpret the political reality in Turkey, from the era of the modernist Kemal Atatürk to today's "Sultan" Erdogan. It demonstrates the ways in which these biases shape dominant ideological trends within and outside the country, to arrive at – and answer – the crucial question: Why is democracy still lacking in Turkey?
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