AHMAD FEROZ

(P/B) THE YOUNG TURKS
First published in 1969, this book has become the definitive study of the 'Young Turks', also known as the Committee of Union and Progress. Counting Turkish army officers as its members, the Young Turks sought to reform the Ottoman Empire by provoking a constitutional revolution against Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Feroz Ahmad describes these events and the ensuing counterrevolution of 1909, including a discussion of the 'Group of Saviour officers' who were determined to destroy the Young Turks. The Ottoman Empire was routed by the Balkan coalit...
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(P/B) TURKEY
This concise history tells the story of Turkey, a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. From its beginnings as a disparate group of tribes to its status as the first secular republic in the Islamic world, Ahmad provides a full survey of Turkey's chequered past. Covering nearly 1,000 years of history, from the eleventh-century invasion of Anatolia to attempts at European integration and involvement in the 2003 war with Iraq, Ahmad unpicks the debates and puts historical disputes in context. This updated edition also examin...
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(P/B) THE MAKING OF MODERN TURKEY
Turkey is the first modern secular state in a predominantly Islamic Middle East. In this major textbook, Feroz Ahmad provides a thorough examination of the political, social and economic processes which led to the formation of a new Turkey. After a chapter on "the Ottoman Legacy", the book covers the period since the revolution of 1908 and the development of the new Turkey. Successive chapters chart the progress through the single-party regime set up by Ataturk (1923-1945), the multi-party period (1945-1960) and the three military interve...
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