Debating Turkish Modernity
Civilization, Nationalism, and the EEC

Debating Turkish Modernity explores how Turks spoke about the prospect of joining the European Economic Community between 1959 and 1980.

Mehmet Dö?emeci (Author)

9781107044913, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 December 2013

240 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg

'Why should any country be interested in joining the European Union? Debating Turkish Modernity offers a perceptive analysis of the Turkish discussion around this issue. Dö?emeci convincingly argues that this subject was central for the way Turkish elites understood their state and society for many decades. An innovative contribution to Turkish and European integration history, and an indispensable book for anyone who tries to understand the relationship between Turkey and the EU today.' Kiran Klaus Patel, Maastricht University

Debating Turkish Modernity describes the opening act of Turkey's half century bid to join the European Community. Between 1959 and 1980, Turks from all walks of life weighed in on their prospective integration into Europe. This book details how these Turks made sense of the project of European Unification and how they spoke about it. It argues that Turkey's EEC debates, by resurrecting past questions over Turkey's relationship to Europe, became the principle forum where Turks of the Second Republic defined who they were, where they came from, and where they were going.

Introduction
1. Joining civilization
2. The T?P of the iceberg
3. Voices from a threatened nation
4. The additional protocol: a 'national' problem
5. Intervention, invasion, isolation
6. From periphery to core
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], Middle Eastern history [HBJF1]