The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey''s history - which illuminates the nation
''Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country'' Colin Thubron
''Read this book if you''re interested in Turkey. Read it if you''re interested in power, hubris and redemption. Read it'' Christopher de Bellaigue, author of The Islamic Enlightenment
In the spring of 2016 travel writer Jeremy Seal went to Turkey to investigate perhaps the most dramatic, revealing and little-known episode in the country''s history - the ''original'' coup of 1960, which deposed the traditionalist Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The story of Menderes - to his adoring supporters the country''s founding democrat; to his sworn enemies its most infamous traitor - goes to the heart of the feud that continues to rage between the Western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religiou
