Turkey in 2013 bears little resemblance to Turkey during the crisis of 2002. Stauros Lygeros guides the reader through the meanders of the undeclared war between neo-Ottomans and Kemalists, which had everything: electoral battles, political intrigues, referendums, the intertwining of the 'deep state' with organized crime, conspiracies, provocations, murders, coup attempts, the American 'finger', conflicting judicial persecutions, religious brotherhoods, Barons of finance, and fierce conflicts for media control.

This undeclared war is linked to the 30-year actual war against Kurdish rebels. The PKK's struggle has irrevocably separated Kurdish identity from Turkish identity. When Ocalan was arrested in 1999, the Turks believed they had won. Today, Erdogan is negotiating a political solution with him.

Stauros Lygeros sheds light on the geopolitical upheavals in the Eastern Mediterranean, fueled by the discovery of energy sources: the imperial syndrome of energy-hungry Turkey, the 'Arab Spring', Israeli politics, the transformation of the Republic of Cyprus into a debt colony, and the impending reintroduction of the Annan plan.

In this light, he analyzes the issue of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the web of Greek-Turkish relations, re-framing dominant myths ('taming the beast' and 'Erdogan is good, the generals are bad'). The map of the Turkish economy is composed by Kostas Melas. Based on primary statistics, he decodes its sizes, dynamics, and contradictions.

What until now has been an advantage is also the Achilles' heel of the Turkish model. If the influx of capital stops, the bubble will burst. The book is written in a modular way, so that each of its four sections can be read independently.