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A coup in Turkey : a tale of democracy, despotism and vengeance in a divided land / Jeremy Seal.

By: Seal, Jeremy [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2021Description: x, 334 pages : maps, photographs ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1784741752; 9781784741754Subject(s): Coups d'état -- Turkey | Turkey -- History -- 1960-LOC classification: DR594 | .S43 2021Summary: In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the 'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country's founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular amibitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division. --inside cover.
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H2p SEAL 32990 Not for loan BOOKS-000000027105

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-308) and index.

In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country's history - the 'original' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country's founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular amibitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the small-town majority. A coup in Turkey is a thrilling account of the events leading up to the coup and the trials and executions that followed, a story of political subterfuge and score-settling, courtroom drama, state execution, authoritarian intolerance and ideological division. --inside cover.