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INTERVIEW: Historian Ryan Gingeras on Atatürk as 'heir to the Ottoman Empire'
The legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still bitterly contested in today's Turkey. Approaching the centenary of the republic's establishment, the process of Westernization, secularization and modernization led by Turkey's nationalist founding father still provides the reference against which various political movements - whether sympathetic or antagonistic - define themselves.
The evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes
'The Burden of Silence: Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes' by Cengiz ?i?man (Oxford University Press, 344 pages, £47)
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