collected snippets of immediate importance...


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

heper and evin, state democracy and the military: turkey in the 1980s


(83): effect of political system was to re-found party system on a modern footing


(138): Menderes was an expression of non-urban elite discomfort of secularist-statis turn; military was unfriendly to landed elite who were culturally more conservative


(164-165): [from William Hale article] young officers marginalized in later coup, precisely because of 'coup within a coup' fears

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