Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey

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Notes

These works of Zürcher are respectively, The Unionist Factor: The Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement 1905–1926 (Leiden: Brill, 1984) and Turkey: A Modern History (London: I.B. Tauris, 1993).

See, Erik J. Zürcher, “The Qttoman Legacy of the Turkish Republic: An Attempt at a New Periodization,” 1992, Die Welt des Islams Vol. 32, No. 2 (1992), pp. 237–253.

Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey (London: Oxford University Press, 1961).

Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey (London: Routledge, 1993).

See also Zürcher's “How Europeans Adopted Anatolia and Discovered Turkey,” 2005, European Review Vol. 13, No. 3 (2005), pp. 379–394.

Zürcher here uses the term “devil's bargain,” a term actually used by Fatma Müge Göçek (another important historian analyzing the late Ottoman and modern Turkey) to refer to the existence of this coalition in explaining the silence of the early republic on the Armenian issue (p. 207, see also notes p. 333).

See also Zürcher's Political Opposition in the Early Turkish Republic: The Progressive Republican Party (1924–1925) (Leiden: Brill, 1991).