Niyazi Berkes

INTERVIEW: Niyazi Berkes' life a window onto Turkey's national story

Published by Hurriyet on Fri, 02/19/2016 - 23:01

The life of Turkish intellectual Niyazi Berkes bridged the Ottoman and Republican eras and provides a useful window through which to explore his turbulent times. The left-leaning Berkes was invested in the Kemalist project of the early Turkish Republic, but circumstances later forced him into voluntary exile at the beginning of the Cold War.