BOOK REVIEW: Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period

Abstract

Amit Bein’s well-researched monograph introduces an alternative way of looking at Turkey’s engagement with the Middle East in the interwar period. Using a wide range of Turkish, Arabic and English archival materials, plus an abundant number of contemporary newspapers, magazines, travel accounts and memoirs, the author challenges the widely-accepted view in the secondary literature that Kemalist Turkey deliberately disengaged with its Middle Eastern neighbours and argues that this view is “a serious overstatement of the realities” (p. 240).

Keywords

Kemalist Turkey, Middle East, Interwar Period, International Relations

Citation

Mehmet Dogar, Book Review: “Amit Bein, Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East: International Relations in the Interwar Period, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 17, No. 67, 2020, pp. 131-132.

Affiliations

• Mehmet DOGAR, Master’s Student, Middle East Technical University, Department of International Relations