Zürcher's book was first published in 1993 and since then has since become available in Dutch, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, Indonesian and - this month - Arabic and Polish. The Turkish edition is now on its 40th edition. An Albanian translation is being prepared.

Turkey. A Modern History

Turkey is a special country: a regional power between three potential troublespots (the Middle East, the Balkans and central Asia). It is itself also a potential troublespot with rising fundamentalism, a guerilla war in the Kurdish provinces and and its own precarious form of democracy.  A country that still has to decide its attitude towards the West. At the same time it is a country with which we in the west and the Netherlands in particular have a lot of contact, as NATO member, home country of hundreds of thousands of immigrants and as a  tourist destination. The book deals with Turkish history from the Ottoman period in the 19th century up to 1995.