Turkey: a forgotten country, a rebel landscape, torn between the old ways and the new. Kurds, Turks, Alevis, and Armenians all nestle alongside each other, and ... » 

Turkey: a forgotten country, a rebel landscape, torn between the old ways and the new. Kurds, Turks, Alevis, and Armenians all nestle alongside each other, and all with different claims on the nations identity. After entry into the EU was opposed, Turkey was plunged into an existential crisis, forced to examine how the dogmas of Islam could be reconciled with the liberalism of modern Europe. Turkeys inheritance is disputed, its nationality divided, and the future is uncertain. Christopher de Bellaigue pieces together the narratives of a range of characters all confronted with the same problem: what does it mean to be Turkish in the modern world? How can a nation be united where villages exist in which one generation overturns the previous by looting, burning and expulsions, only to be usurped again by the next? Into the Rebel Lands is the story of lives lived under the shadow of ancestral hatreds, and the origins of those hatreds. Never has there been such a poignant and important time to write about the truths and taboos of Turkeys convoluted identities. Into the Rebel Lands is an engaging and perceptive study of national identity, counteridentity, and a peoples impassioned attachment to their land. «