"Turkey's corset of modernisation
Zafer Senocak on the legacy of Turkey's modernisation and the AKP's electoral victory
Well into the 1980s, Turkey was still largely isolated from the rest of the world. Since the reforms of the state's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the 1920s, Turkish society had been held in a corset of modernisation. This modernisation, referred to locally as Westernisation or Europeanisation, had aspects of a culturally revolutionary nature. It created an elite that distinguished itself from the greater masses. Members of this elite had it good."
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