Foreword / The Last chroniclers of the Mabeyn / Young Turk assessments of international politics, 1906-9 / Turkish settlement and the Caucasus, 1918-20 / Western defence developments and Turkey's search for security in 1948 / The Press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey / Democratic transition in Turkey, 1980-83: the impact of European diplomacy / Liberalism, democracy and the Turkish centre-right: the identity crisis of the True Path party / Urbanization and voting for the Turkish parliament / The Paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity / The Rise of a spontaneous synthesis: the historical background of Turkish popular music / The Turkish state discourse and the exclusion of Kurdish identity / Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate at Ankara