a ISBN 0-374-52866-7

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number DR576

b Item number .K56 2001

a Personal name Kinzer, Stephen.

a Title Crescent and star :

b Remainder of title Turkey between two worlds /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Stephen Kinzer.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Turkey between two worlds.

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2001.

a Extent xi, 252 p. ;

c Dimensions 21 cm.

a General note Includes index.

a Formatted contents note Dreaming in Turkish -- Hero -- Call to prayer -- Ghosts -- Kurdish puzzle -- Freedom rising -- Guardians -- Death by earthquake -- Aegean dawn -- Prize.

a Summary, etc For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk", and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen Kinzer's compelling report on the truth about this nation of contradictions - posed between Europe and Asia, caught between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions. Will this vibrant country succeed in becoming a great democratic state? This book makes it clear why Turkey is posed to become "the most audacious nation of the twenty-first century".

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Civil society

y Chronological subdivision 20th century.