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Title: The author tries too hard to satisfy both sides
Review: The author tries too hard to satisfy both sides. Each time he criticises something, you know that a few paragraphs or pages later he will be delivering praises. That kind of book would have been natural by a Turkey author who knows that he or she may need to deal with that state and that army the rest of his or her life, but I was expecting a much more clear book from a foreigner who had the opportunity to see many abuses in the country. He also adopts a paternal attitude trying "to show" to the Turks the road toward development and democracy. Besides, the chapters are a kind of long newspapers articles, rather than real chapters on the recent history of Turkey. I missed at least a chapter about Turkey's economy, since there was none. Of course, the book teaches about Turkey... since I assume that most readers (like me) will know very little from Turkey before reading the book, but I was expecting much more from the book when I decided to buy it.
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