Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey

<p class="gmail-western">Murat Metinsoy on “The Power of the People: Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38” (Cambridge University Press). The book examines how ordinary people's reaction to Kemalist reforms shaped, modified or softened how those reforms were implemented on the ground.</p> <p class="gmail-western"><a href='https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true'>Become a member</a> to support Turkey Book Talk. Members get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, transcripts of the whole archive, and over 200 reviews covering Turkish and international fiction, history and politics.</p>