Turkey remains almost unknown to Greeks to this day. In recent years, it has been in a deep crisis, and Turkish society is divided in half. In this volume, a group of prominent analysts and intellectuals—Turkish citizens known for their critical thinking—present and analyze this "New Turkey" from the inside and in depth. With their writings, composed with pain and specifically for this edition, they open channels of communication with the Greek reader and lay the foundations for a different Turkey from the current one; a Turkey that will be orderly and democratic.
This volume gives a voice for the first time in Greece to some of the most distinguished Turkish analysts and intellectuals. Its purpose is to highlight the reasons for the turn that political affairs in Turkey have taken over the last decade. The texts contribute to a better understanding of aspects of political and social life in the neighboring country, which usually remain inaccessible to the Greek reading public.
Being the idea and product of the work of a group of friends from Istanbul, both Greeks and Turks, this volume is also a hymn to Greek-Turkish friendship and to the city, a beloved common homeland and point of reference.
