CRESCENT AND STAR: Turkey Between Two Worlds

By Stephen Kinzer

In the 2001 first edition of this widely praised book, Stephen Kinzer makes the convincing claim that Turkey is the country to watch -- poised between Europe and Asia, between the glories of its Ottoman past and its hopes for a democratic future, between the dominance of its army and the needs of its civilian citizens, between its secular expectations and its Muslim traditions.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2001)