Turkey in the 21st Century: Speeches and Texts Presented at International Fora (1995-2000).

CEM, Ismail; [Madeleine K. Albright].

$300.00

Item Number: 147358

Mersin, Turkey: Rustem, 2000.

First edition of this collection of the author’s articles, letters, and speeches. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Madeleine with friendship and best wishes, Ismail Cem.” The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that we don’t need any of those three “Ds” to happen.” After her tenure as Secretary of State, she served as chair of the consulting Albright Stonebridge Group and was the Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. For Albright’s contributions to foreign policy and relations that defined a century, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. In near fine condition.

Foreign Minister of Turkey, Ismail Cem, was a Turkish center-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author and journalist whose legacy lives on through the memory and action of Turkish youths. The son of Turkish cinema pioneer İhsan İpekçi and cousin of the murdered human rights activist Abdi İpekçi, Cem advocated for revitalization of Turkish left and wrote extensively about the economic and social factors related to the country's political struggle. Among his most famous works are 'A History of Underdevelopment in Turkey' and 'What is and What is not Social Democracy,' one of the first books to introduce social democracy to Turkish politics.