This volume aims to shed light on Turkish political issues. The discussions range over national and international politics, democracy and freedom of the press, voting patterns, official control of indigenous music, and conditions in industrial estates.

Foreword /W.M. Hale -- The Last chroniclers of the Mabeyn / S. Tanvir Wasti -- Young Turk assessments of international politics, 1906-9 / Hasan Ünal -- Turkish settlement and the Caucasus, 1918-20 / Bülent Gökay -- Western defence developments and Turkey's search for security in 1948 / E. Athanassopoulou -- The Press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey / Metin Heper and Tanel Demirel -- Democratic transition in Turkey, 1980-83: the impact of European diplomacy / çIhsan D. Daægi -- Liberalism, democracy and the Turkish centre-right: the identity crisis of the True Path party / Ümit Cizre Sakallioæglu -- Urbanization and voting for the Turkish parliament / Aryeh Shmuelevitz -- The Paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity / Ayse Kadioæglu -- The Rise of a spontaneous synthesis: the historical background of Turkish popular music / Orhan Tekelioæglu -- The Turkish state discourse and the exlusion of Kurdish identity / Mesut Yeægen -- Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate at Ankara / Theo Nichols and Nadir Sugur.