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In this masterful volume, Dr. Cohen Yanarocak tracks Turkey’s sinuous ideological transformation under president Erdoğan—through curriculum and school textbooks. What young Turks learn today will guide how they see the world tomorrow. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in Turkey and its place in the world.

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Soner Cagaptay, author of A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces

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Via a thorough study of the textbooks that have instructed Turkish children over the past nearly one hundred years, Cohen Yanarocak’s book adds vital nuance and texture to our understanding of the evolution of Turkish state ideology since Atatürk’s time, including the past twenty years of AKP control; in so doing, it reveals a worrisome contemporary effort to shape youthful Turkish minds in an anti-American, anti-European, and anti-Israeli direction. This book is an invaluable contribution to understanding the history of the Turkish Republic—and, quite possibly, its future.

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Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress

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A very impressive and comprehensive analysis of the dramatic ideological upheaval modern Turkey went through. By conducting a thorough content analysis of official Turkish textbooks, Cohen Yanarocak finds a unique but effective way to explain the undercurrent streams of the Secular-Islamic confrontation. A very original way to examine and explain the rise and fall of Atatürkism.

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Alon Liel, Former Director General Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs