The fact that the active and organized involvement of radical movements in Turkish politics is a recent development renders its investigation difficult. To be meaningful, the terms ¿Left¿, ¿Right¿ and ¿Islamist¿ have to relate to specific situations, and against a background of freedom of action. In Turkey, therefore, the main field of study should be the years following the 1960 Revolution ¿ the period which is the main concern of this book, first published in 1974.