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Author : M. Heper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230593602
Uniquely, Metin Heper suggests a theory of acculturation (rather than assimilation) captures the nature of State-Kurd interaction in Turkey, by not leaving any part of that interaction unaccounted for.
Author : Kemal Kirisci,Gareth M. Winrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135217709
This volume examines the Kurdish question in Turkey, tracing its developments from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. The study considers: secession; federal schemes; various forms of autonomy; the provision of special rights; and further democratization.
Author : Fevzi Bilgin,Ali Sarihan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739184035
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have demanded autonomy and recognition since the post-World I wave of self-governance in the region, and their nationalist claims have further intensified since the end of the Cold War. The present volume first describes the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, its genesis during the late nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire, and its legacy into the new Turkish republic. Second, the volume takes up the violent legacy of Kurdish nationalism and analyzes the conflict through the actions of the PKK, the militant pro-Kurdish organization which grew to be the most important actor in the process. Third, the volume deals with the international dimensions of the Kurdish question, as manifested in Turkey’s evolving relationships with Syria, Iraq, and Iran, the issue regarding the status of the Kurdish minorities in these countries, and the debate over the Kurdish problem in Western capitals.
Author : Ephraim Nimni,Elçin Aktoprak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030011086
This book examines modalities for the recognition and political participation of minorities in plurinational states in theory and in practice, with a specific reference to the Republic of Turkey and the resolution of the Kurdish question. Drawing on the experience of Spain and Eastern Europe and other recent novel models for minority accommodation, including the Ottoman experience of minority autonomy (the Millet System), the volume brings together researchers from Turkey and Europe more broadly to develop an ongoing dialogue that analytically examines various models for national minority accommodation. These models promise to protect the state’s integrity and provide governmental mechanisms that satisfy demands for collective representation of national communities in the framework of a plurinational state.
Author : Nikos Christofis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000531374
This book focuses on the AKP government since 2002 during which time the state’s approach to the Kurdish Question has undergone several changes. Examining what preceded and followed the failed putsch of 2016, it explains and critiques that situates the Kurdish Question in its broader context. It stands out with the main objective to avoid any ‘policy-oriented bias’ through an interdisciplinary and multi-thematic approach. The volume discusses the state and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey, as well as counter-hegemonic discourses that seek to reform existing institutions. Some chapters focus on the domestic aspects and gender perspectives of the Kurdish Question in Turkey, which focus has been taken over by recent developments in Syria and the Middle East in general. Other chapters include a range of new aspects of Turkish society and politics, and the international aspects of Ankara’s policies and its implications not only inside Turkey but also internationally. Taking both domestic and foreign policy aspects into account, the book offers a set of innovative explanations for the state of crisis in Turkey and a solid basis for thinking about the likely path forward. Scholars, researchers and post-graduates, interested in political theory, Kurdish and Middle East politics will find this book invaluable.
Author : Denise Natali
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0815630840
In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, Denise Natali shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes. Rather, Kurdish nationalism has been shaped by the development of nation-states in the region. Although Kurdish communities have maintained some shared sense of Kurdishness, Kurdayeti (the mobilization of Kurdish identity) is interwoven with a much larger series of identities within the "political space" of each Kurdish group. Different notions of inclusion and exclusion have modified the political and cultural opportunities of Kurds to express their ethnic identities, and opening the possibility of assuming alternative identities over time. With this book Natali makes a significant contribution to theoretical, empirical, and policy-based scholarship on the Middle East, the plight of the Kurds, ethnonationalism, and ethnopolitical conflict. Hers is the first comparative work to examine Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces. As a vital addition to the literature in the field, this book will supplant a number of standard texts on the Kurds.
Author : Lucie Drechselová,Adnan Çelik
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498575256
This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies. The contributions are assembled around four themes: women’s participation, paramilitary, space, and infrapolitics of resistance.
Author : Michael Gunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000302851
This book analyzes the Kurdish problem in Turkey from the point of view of the Turkish authorities, as well as from the perspective of disaffected Kurds living in that state and abroad. It also analyzes the political instability and terrorism rampant in Turkey during the late 1970s.
Author : Seevan Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317271161
In the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own state. However, several factors meant that this dream never became a reality, and the land of the Kurds was divided. Amid a sense of a loss of identity, the Kurds started to fight for their social and political rights. ‘Kurdish Politics in Turkey’ argues that the Kurdish struggle has largely been a failure, and that the emergence of the Unions of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) has been a direct result of this. The book examines the success of the KCK and how it has transformed this Kurdish struggle in Turkey from a one-dimensional political movement, to a multi-dimensional social movement.
Author : Henri J. Barkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585177731
The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity—politically and through violence. Divided mainly among Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, the Kurds have posed increasingly sharp challenges to all of these states in their quest for greater autonomy if not outright independence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society_ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge_have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. For the West the situation in Turkey is particularly significant because of the country's importance in the region and because of the economic, political, and diplomatic damage that the conflict has caused. If Turkey fails to find a peaceful solution within its current borders, then the outlook is grim for ethnic and separatist challenges elsewhere in the region. This study explores the roots, dimensions, character, and evolution of the problem, offers a range of approaches to a resolution of the conflict, and draws broader parallels between the Kurdish question and other separatist movements worldwide.
Author : Durukan Kuzu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417822
Looks at the situation of Kurds in Turkey through the lens of multiculturalism, giving us a fresh and new comparative perspective.
Author : Sebastian Sönksen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656211273
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The thesis tries to understand the development of ethnic identification in the Turkish Republic. It focusses on Kurdishness and the current, seemingly paradoxical situation of a growing recognition of Kurdish ethnicity with a simultaneous increase of social tensions on this issue. In the theoretical part of the thesis, the concept of ethnicity is analyzed. This includes an examination of the etymology of the term and an introduction of the major schools of thought on ethnicity: primordialism and social constructivism. While primordialism defines ethnicity as a fixed identity constituted by objective and often physical characteristics like ancestry, skin color, or mother tongue, social constructive theories view ethnicity as a variable social category dependent on space and time. Two theories are of importance for the Turkish case: Nagel's (1994) social constructive model of ethnicity which underlines the influences and interrelations of the society, the state, individuals and groups in the social construction of ethnic categories, and Scott's (1990) argument that the perception of opposition on parts of a minority group leads to an increase in its ethnic identification. Based on these theoretical grounds, the empirical part examines the conceptions of Kurdish ethnicity in Turkey from the establishment of the Republic in 1923 until today. At first sight, the developments seem to have been oscillating non-systematically between the two poles of denial and recognition, and ended up in the contemporary paradox of an increasing recognition of Kurdish ethnicity facilitated by the politics of the contemporary AKP government on the one side, and growing social tensions on ethnic issues on the other side. But as the thesis argues, there are signs of a long-term process of increasing recognition of Kurdish ethnicity and growing interaction between parts of the society that define themselves and "Turkish" and "Kurdish". This development led to a stronger perception of opposition on the latter side, which in turn and according to Scott's theory strengthened their ethnic identification. The result of this process is the questioned paradox of recognition and conflict.
Author : Ceren Sengül
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498573573
The discussions on Kurds of Turkey mostly refer to them as if they are one homogeneous group, with different forms of being Kurdish mostly overlooked. Yet, Kurds have been scattered all across Turkey; they differ in terms of the language they speak; they have also been subject to different policies of the Turkish state in different periods. How can we take these factors into account when discussing Kurdishness in Turkey? That is, in which ways does a Kurd living in a small city in Southeast Turkey differ from a Kurd living in Istanbul? How does being a native Kurdish speaker play a role in forming Kurdishness? What about different state rhetoric in different periods? By focusing on these three main questions, this book offers a detailed account on the diversity of experiences of Kurdishness. Based on her fieldwork in five different field sites in Turkey, Dr. Şengül illustrates, through narratives of her respondents, how Kurdishness is exhibited in different, personalised, and customised forms across different contexts in Turkey. Each substantive chapter in the book analyses a different element that plays a role in constructing these different forms of Kurdishness: state rhetoric, localities, and the language use. By arguing that there is not one single way of exhibiting Kurdishness, this book challenges any standard definitions of Kurdishness, and defines it as the daily (re-)negotiation of state rhetoric and everyday practices individuals experience.
Author : Veli Yadirgi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107181236
An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey's Kurdish question.
Author : Ferhad Ibrahim,Gülistan Gürbey
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3825847446
At the core of the interest are the controversy on the political implementation of violence, the relevance of the international law for the conflict, the regional and foreign relations of the PKK, and the chances and obstacles of a peaceful democratic conflict resolution."--Jacket.
