Book Review: Ryan Gingeras, Eternal Dawn: Turkey in the Age of Atatürk, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Main Author: Evren Altinkas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 2021-05-01
• Series: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences
• Subjects: turkey; mustafa kemal ataturk; kemalism; republican people’s party; middle east
• Online Access: http://www.netsoljournal.net/dergi/his29af3.pdf

This book analyses the transformation from the late Ottoman period to the modern Republic of Turkey with a focus on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the reforms implemented during the early years of the republic. The book familiarizes the readers with the political, social and economic transformation of the country by focusing on specific cases and examples with a comprehensive historical background. Gingeras focuses on the historical background of major topics (e.g. Reforms, Kurdish Revolts, Turkish Nationalism etc.) in the early Republic of Turkey and connects them with the developments in the late Ottoman Empire. This book is different from previous works because it emphasizes the relations between the new state and the people in Anatolia.