Chronology -- Introduction / Reşat Kasaba -- Pt. I. Ottoman background and transition. The Tanzimat / Carter Vaughn Findley ; The reign of Abdülhamid II / Benjamin C. Fortna ; The second constitutional period, 1908-1918 / M. Şükrü Hani̇oğlu ; The struggle for independence / Hasan Kayali ; Atatürk / Andrew Mango -- Pt. II. Republic of Turkey. Migration and Turkey: the dynamics of state, society and politics / Kemal Kirişci ; The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end / Levent Soysal ; Politics and political parties in Republican Turkey / Feroz Ahmad ; Economic change in twentieth-century Turkey: is the glass more than half full? / Şevket Pamuk ; Ideology, context and interest: the Turkish military / Ümi̇t Ci̇zre ; Kurds and the Turkish state / Hami̇t Bozarslan ; Islam and politics in contemporary Turkey / Jenny B. White ; Sufism and Islamic groups in contemporary Turkey / Ahmet Yükleyen ; Contestation and collaboration women's struggles for empowerment in Turkey / Yeşi̇m Arat ; Art and architecture in modern Turkey: the Republican period / Si̇bel Bozdoğan ; The novel in Turkish: narrative tradition to Nobel prize / Erdağ Göknar ; A brief history of modern Istanbul / Çağlar Keyder.