Turkey: a Question of Alignment

Rodney Wilson

Chapter 6 in The Economies of the Middle East, 1979, pp 87-100 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until the nineteenth century Ottoman Turkey was the dominant power in the Middle East, with an empire which covered 4·7 million square kilometres, including most of the area dealt with in this present study, with the notable exception of Iran. Southward from the capital, Istanbul, the empire extended through Syria and Mesopotamia (Iraq) to the shores of the Arabian peninsula in the east, while to the south it encompassed the entire Mediterranean littoral from Palestine to Egypt. The Empire included the oldest established centres of settled agriculture in the world, the Nile Valley and the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, where the original Garden of Eden was said to be located. To the north the Ottoman territories extended through the Balkans to southern Yugoslavia, and included Greece, Turkey’s ancient and modern rival.1

Keywords: Migrant Worker; Immigrant Worker; North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; European Investment; Turkish Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03421-5_6

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