Dervish: The Invention of Modern Turkey

by TimKelsey (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $36.85

  Blending the present and the past, the Arabesque and the contemporary pop scene, Kurdish insurgents and whirling dervishes, this book attempts to portray the diversity of Turkey and Turkish society. Transvestite nightclubs, the problems of heritage, the theatre, the clash between Eastern and Western Turkey, tribes and the civil war between Turkish military and Kurdish separatists, the booming heroin trade and cultural intolerance, all form part of the book.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.25

  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.