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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Sons of the Conquerors is an interesting history and review of the current statuses of the Turkic peoples and their nation states from Turkey to western China and their diasporas into the West. Hugh Pope, the author, bases the book largely on his personal experience as a reporter visiting or stationed for most of his career in Turkey and other areas of the Turkic world. His analysis is not deep in an academic sense, but it is interestingly based on a lot of first hand experience. A good read and you will learn a lot about interesting (or even pivotal) areas of thw world that are otherwise not well known in terms of books. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Wall Street Journal correspondent Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the descendants of the nomad armies who once conquered China and the Byzantine Empire. He shows the myriad connections that live on between Turks in the Xinjiang province of western China (one of that country's few remaining bastions of rebellion), through Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, the Netherlands, Germany (where Turkish can be heard on every other street corner of Berlin), and all the way to the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. Along the way he reassesses a history in which Islamic lands were ruled by Turkic dynasties - before their ascendancy was broken by the rising power of Europe, Russia, and China - among them the Moguls, who conquered India, the Safavids, who laid the foundations of modern Iran, and the Ottomans, whose five-century-long empire encompassed Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East."--BOOK JACKET. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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There is not much to distinguish between civilian and military. Although ironically the civilians and military occupy different spaces which creates an almost separate economy. Military officers rarely socialize with their civilian counterparts. Elite warriors of Ottoman Empire called janissaries made or broke governments. In the late 20th century, the military still had major claim to policy making. Staging coups which determined who became took leadership. The military considers itself main guarantor of Turks’ independence and sovereignty, which many Turks in agreement.
Conscription is universal, while objectors are jailed. The universal conscription is meant to homogenize the people, teach skills, travel around the country, and learn Turkish. Ruled through fear. Few people publicly doubt the military’s motives. Internal division or problems are handled secretly. When the civilian government takes charge of basic administration, they tend to not perform well and the military retakes control. The influence of the military prevents civilian politicians from taking responsibility of their actions, and learning how to manage affairs appropriately without military supervision. Public service used to be an honorable profession but has become demoralized with lagging salaries.
Turkey itself is a EU candidate member, but both see problems with each other. Holding vastly different political cultures and value sets. Resenting the demand of civilian control, and rejecting minority rights. Turkish people recognize the lack of commitment on territorial integrity of states as Western intervention had devastating impacts on certain regions.
Turks are natural entrepreneurs for their values of risk and personal control. Willing to establish factories and invest internationally. Turkish families tend to act as an investing unit and willing to support abroad family members. Personal ties are critical for investments, as contracts mean little. Any deal is permanently open for renegotiation, no matter how frank and trustworthy Turks are. Turkish trade is not a favorable profession as it was held with contempt by the Turkish-Muslin ruling class, as it has been by the 18th century English, or even the Byzantine aristocracy. Culturally containing rampant corruption as the expectation is not the work the job offers, but the bribes that can be made.
Turkic institutions are changing as they seek external sources of ideas that can be applied to make their societies better. A willingness to engage with the international community to build better relations, and engage with internal community to provide more stability.
A problem with the book is that the history of the Ottoman Empire is sporadic and superficial, making difficult to engage the continuity of the Turkic peoples. As the book focus on a very short timeframe, and few examples from various countries, it makes it difficult to generalize the experience for the various communities. The examples do highlight various experiences of the Turkic people, but understanding is difficult without the depth of diverse informational sources.
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