"Modernization alla Turca
Sunday, March 6, 2005
Opinion by Elif Safak
ELIF SAFAK
Every analysis on Turkey needs to pay a special attention to the trajectory of modernization in Turkish cultural and political history.
For quite some time in university circles, the notion of �modernization� was employed as a universal and fundamental stage, which all societies had to undergo at one time or another along their particular history. Only recently has this sweeping approach been replaced by a more diversified understanding, which gives room to cultural and historical variation, and acknowledges the existence of perhaps several modernizations rather than �modernization� as one single formula. "
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