ISBN10: 0817911448, ISBN13: 9780817911447, [publisher: Hoover Institution Press,U.S., Stanford] Hardcover Hardcover. For centuries, Islam and the West have been competing to define Turkish identity. Decades of close cooperation between Turkey and its NATO allies generated Western confidence that Turkey was a reliable ally and that its democratic system was sufficiently resilient to weather periodic political crises. But in recent years, those who have sought to soften the boundary between Islam and public life have become more organized and influential in Turkish politics.In Torn Country, Zeyno Baran examines the intense struggle between Turkeys secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their countrys destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkeys secularism and its democratic experiment, she shows that, for all the flaws of its political journey, the modern Turkish state has managed to maintain an essential separation between religion and the political realma separation that is now in jeopardy Examines the intense struggle between Turkey's secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their country's destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkey's secularism and its democratic experiment, this shows that the modern Turkish state has managed to maintain an essential separation between religion and the political realm - a separation that is now in jeopardy. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our ...