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INTERVIEW: Niyazi Berkes’ life a window onto Turkey’s national story - BOOKS

INTERVIEW: Niyazi Berkes’ life a window onto Turkey’s national story

William Armstrong - william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr

The life of Turkish intellectual Niyazi Berkes bridged the Ottoman and Republican eras and provides a useful window through which to explore his turbulent times. The left-leaning Berkes was invested in the Kemalist project of the early Turkish Republic, but circumstances later forced him into voluntary exile at the beginning of the Cold War.

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