Encounters at the Bosphorus : Turkey during World War II : proceedings of the international conference in Wrocław and Krzyżowa, Poland, 28-30 September 2007 : "Krzyżowa" Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe / [publishing editor, Mikołaj Wojtaszek].

Includes bibliographical references.

Poland and Turkey up until the beginning of the 20th century / Jerzy Marori -- Turkey in the 1930s : internal reforms and external orientation / Dilek Barlas -- Piłsudski and Atatürk : two symbols of building national identity in the interwar period : similarities and differences / Danuta Chmielowska -- Turkey's modernization : luminary professors saved from fascism by Turkey and kept in escrow for the US, Israel, and Germany / Arnold Reisman -- Ernst Reuter : from "founding father of modern Turkish urban studies" to Governing Mayor of Berlin / Friedheim Boll -- Between friendly and hostile neutrality : Turkey and the Jews during World War II / Tuvia Friling -- Turkey's role as a transit space for Jewish refugees to Palestine during World War II / Corry Guttstadt -- Helmuth James von Moltke's visit to Turkey in summer 1943 : motivation and objectives / Hans Mommsen -- Moltke in Istanbul : German peace feelers and American politics in World War II / Christof Mauch -- Post-War Europe as envisaged by the Polish and German opposition / Krzysztof Ruchniewicz -- Europe's Oriental appendix? : Turkey in the eyes of Western Europe's postwar politicians / Achim Trunk.

English, with summaries in German and Polish.