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Oct 2023
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Alp Yenen on weighing up the Republic of...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Alp Yenen on “A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments” (Leiden University Press). The book includes 100 chapters, written by over 70 scholars, examining different aspects of Turkey's political, social, cultural and economic history on the centenary of the republic's founding.

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