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Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Andrew Finkel
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Description for Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Paperback. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HBJD; HBJF1; JP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199733040
SKU
V9780199733040
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About Andrew Finkel
Andrew Finkel is a journalist who has been based in Turkey for twenty years. His reporting has appeared in The Economist, Time, The Daily Telegraph, The Times of London, and CNN.
Reviews for Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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
Michael Kerr, Daily Telegraph
a valuable introduction to students, travellers and whoever rightly thinks Turkey a fascinating story.
Gilles Dorronsoro, International Affairs