Dervish: the Invention of Modern Turkey

Tim Kelsey

ISBN 10: 0241132894 / ISBN 13: 9780241132890

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1996

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DJ; Ex Library. 321 pages.

Seller Inventory # 1366994

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dervish: the Invention of Modern Turkey
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241132894
• ISBN 13: 9780241132890
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Unlike most writers, who give a European eye-view of a Turkey that mourns all that is lost, and consider it in the light of a holiday resort, this book explores a Turkey which is seeking out its own identity and which is beginning to realise it s not simply a bridge between East and West. The lowlife of tranvestite nightclubs, the problems of heritage, the theatre, the clash between Eastern and Western Turkey, tribes and the current civil war between Turkish military and Kurdish separatists, the booming heroin trade and cultural intolerance all form part of the book, bringing to light a Turkey which is not so much a country so much as a state of mind.