A comprehensive analysis of the actors and factors driving recent developments in Turkish politics at home and abroad.

Turkey at a glance. Turkey at a turbulent time / Ronald H. Linden and Gürkan Çelik -- Dynamics at home. Domestic politics in the AKP era / Gürkan Çelik -- Gains and strains in the economy / Gürkan Çelik and Elvan Aktas -- The geopolitics of energy / Mustafa Demir -- Militarization of the Kurdish issue / Joost Jongerden -- The Diyanet and the changing politics of religion / Nico Landman -- The fragmentation of civil society / Gürkan Çelik and Paul Dekker -- Women in the "new" Turkey / Jenny White -- Dynamics abroad. Changes and dangers in Turkey's world / Ronald H. Linden -- Erdoægan's foreign policy : the role of personality and identity / Henri J. Barkey -- The crisis in US-Turkish relations / Aaron Stein -- Turkey in the Middle East / Bill Park -- Russian-Turkish relations at a volatile time / Joris van Bladel -- Turkey and Europe : alternative scenarios / Hanna-Lisa Hauge, Funda Tekin, and Wolfgang Wessels -- Eurocentrism in migration policy / Juliette Tolay -- Conclusion. Transition to what? / Gürkan Çelik and Ronald H. Linden -- Chronology of key events in the history of modern Turkey -- List of acronyms and abbreviations.