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The New Turkey: The quiet revolution on the edge of Europe By Chris Morris £17.99, 2 58 pages Cranta, 2005 ISBN: 1862077908
The New Turkey could not have come at a better time in the wake of the French and Dutch rejections of the EU's Constitutional Treaty - fuelled significantly by popular fears of further enlargement, particularly to Turkey - and the official start to Turkey's accession negotiations on 3 October. The author, Chris Morris, was the BBC's Turkey correspondent from 1997 to 2001 and one of its Europe correspondents in Brussels from 2001 to 2005. As such, he is better placed than most to comment on this delicate relationship, and he does so with eloquence and a flair for journalistic storytelling that is normally wanting in academic books.
The author takes the reader through a cultural, social, economic and political voyage of Turkey, constantly fusing objective writing with interesting anecdotes and interviews with Turks of all walks of life. Although the book does cover a...