Contents:

1. Turks in Central Asia: An Overview of Early Ethno-linguistic Linkages and Political Development in Turkey from Empire to Republic

Early Linkages of Turks with Central Asia

Russification of Central Asia

Pre-Revolutionary Religious Refoam Movements in Central Asia

Pan Turkism

Ottoman Reforms: Islam vs. Modernization

Islamism and the Young Ottomans

Young Turks and Constitutional Reforms (1908-23)

Advent of Turkism

The Induction of Western Identity

2. Pan-Turkism: Historical and Contemporary

Origin of Pan-Turkism

Pan-Turanism of Zia Gokalp

The Basmachis Movement

Tactical use of Pan-Turkism and Pan-Islamism during the war of Independence

Turco-Russian Rapproachment

Contemporary Pan-Turkism

3. Turkey’s Interest in the Caspian Sea Region: Relations with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

Turkey's Interests

Policy towards the Caspian-Caucasian States

The CaspianSea Controversy

Turkey-Azerbaijan Oil Pipelines and the Karabakh Dispute

Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Turkey

Turkmen Gas and Turkey

The Kazakh OIl and Turkey

Turkey and Iran in the Caspian Sea Basin

Turkey' Rivals: Iran and Russia

Azerbaijani Oil and Turkey and Iran

Turkey and Russia

Turkey's Expectations from the United States

4. Turkey in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Economic Co-operation Organization (ECO) 

The EU Factor

Turkey and Regional Integration in Central Asia

5. Turkey and the Emerging Geo-political Constellations in Central Asia

I Turkey and the Euro-American Configuration: Gains and Constraints

Turkey, US, NATO and the European Security Kurdish Issue

The CFE Revision of Conventional Arms Limitation Claues

II Russia-Turkey-Iran Triangle

Russia's Interests in the Southern Caucasus

Islamic Militancy

Pan-Turkism

UA Military Activities in South-Caucasus and NATO'S Expansion

Caspian Oil and Pipeline Projects

Russia and Iran

Emerging Equations between Russia, Iran and Turkey

Russia and Iran on Identity of the Caspian Sea 

Politics of Pipelines

A Four Dimensional Alliance and Regional Power Balance

6. Turkey, Israel and Greece in Trans-Caucasia and Central Asia

Turkey and Israel: New Alliesin Southern Caucasus and Central Asia

Turkey-Israel Co-operation in Central Asia

Israel and the Central Asian Republics

Azerbaijan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Turkey and Greece in Trans-Caucasus: Strange "bed-fellows"

Major Points of Discord between Greece and Turkey 

Cyprus Issue

Sharing the Aegean Sea Resources: Problems of Territorial Waters and Continental Shelf

Turkish Minority in Greece

The EU Factor

The US as a Factor in Turkey-Greece Relations

The Post-Soviet Development

Ankara Searching new friends and improving Relations with the Adversaries

Greece in Trans-Caucasia

Greece and Armenia

Greece in Azerbaijan and Georgia

7. Whither Turkey?-Some Possible Options

Water Problem with Syria

Kurdish Problem with Iraq

Armenian "Genocide"