The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

banned the Welfare Party and prohibited seven of its leaders, including Erbakan, from engaging in political activity for seven y ...

Following is the text of a memorandum, signed by General Memduh Tagmac, chief of the General Staff and the commanders of the Tur ...

DOCUMENT Turkish Embassy Announcement of a Coup (1980) SEPTEMBER12, 1980 A military takeover has taken place in Turkey in the ea ...

the Justice Party, Republican Peoples Party, National Salvation Party, National Action Party, for their personal safety, are und ...

Furthermore, there has been disturbing news to the effect that all the school prin- ciples in Ankara’s Altindag district were or ...

Rise of the Justice and Development Party DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Despite numerous crises and repeated interventions by the military ...

issues, for we know very well that numerical superiority does not mean everything,” the party announced. The new government sele ...

DOCUMENT Program of the Fifty-eighth Turkish Government NOVEMBER23, 2002 Turkey, in the aftermath of the November 3 General Elec ...

The state’s role in the economy could not conform with the changing conditions due to wrong policies that were being implemented ...

rule of law based on individual rights and freedoms as well as pluralist and participa- tory democracy.... A New Economic Progra ...

The youth, besides the treasure of the country, is the source of our dynamism and potential for change. We will support cultural ...

653 1914 August:World War I begins. The Ottoman Empire sides with the Central Powers (Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire). ...

October 30:The Ottomans sign an armistice with the Entente allies, ending their par- ticipation in World War I. 1919 January:Cha ...

Britain will control Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine; and France will control Lebanon and Syria. November 1:The Turkish Grand N ...

1929 August 6:Britain and Egypt reach agreement providing for the end of British military occupation, but with British forces st ...

1941 May 2:Britain intervenes in Iraq to overthrow a new government that had aligned itself with Nazi Germany. British forces wi ...

1948 May 13:Britain ends its mandate over Palestine, and the Arab League declares that a state of war exists between itself and ...

Israel offers to sign “nonaggression” agreements with its four Arab neighbors and to compensate (but not accept the return of) P ...

June 13:Britain ends its military occupation of the Suez Canal. June 24:Egyptian president Nasser wins an uncontested election t ...

February 21:Voters in Egypt and Syria approve their countries’ merger in plebiscites. Yemen will later join the union. July 14:K ...