The Power of the People by Murat Metinsoy HARDBACK 9781316515464

The Power of the People\nby Murat Metinsoy\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Murat Metinsoy\nTitle: The Power of the People\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Middle Eastern history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781316515464\nISBN-10: 131651546X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFollowing the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atat\u00FCrk and his Republican People''s Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atat\u00FCrk''s strong spurt of modernizatio.