First published in 1973 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Republic, this book was written almost for the present day with a tremendous breadth of perspective and depth of vision.
A bird's-eye view and painful analysis of what the attempts to sever the Turk from their spiritual roots and the efforts toward Westernization, which began with the 1839 Tanzimat movement, have done to the country in economic, social, political, scientific, moral, and religious terms…