Turkey S Kurdish Question

Author : Henri J. Barkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780585177731

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Turkey's Kurdish Question by Henri J. Barkey Pdf

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 : Fevzi Bilgin,Ali Sarihan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739184035

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Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question by Fevzi Bilgin,Ali Sarihan Pdf

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 : Kemal Kirisci,Gareth M. Winrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135217778

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The Kurdish Question and Turkey by Kemal Kirisci,Gareth M. Winrow Pdf

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 : Cengiz Gunes,Welat Zeydanlioglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135140632

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The Kurdish Question in Turkey by Cengiz Gunes,Welat Zeydanlioglu Pdf

Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict has cost the lives of 45,000 people, including soldiers, guerrillas and civilians. The complex issue of the Kurdish Question in Turkey is subject to comprehensive examination in this book. This interdisciplinary edited volume brings together chapters by social theorists, political scientists, social anthropologists, sociologists, legal theorists and ethnomusicologists to provide new perspectives on this internationally significant issue. It elaborates on the complexity of the Kurdish question and examines the subject matter from a number of innovative angles. Considering historical, theoretical and political aspects of the Kurdish question in depth and raising issues that have not been discussed sufficiently in existing literature, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism and Conflict, Turkish Politics and Middle Eastern politics more broadly.

Author : Gareth Stansfield,Mohammed Shareef
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190869724

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The Kurdish Question Revisited by Gareth Stansfield,Mohammed Shareef Pdf

The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. The contributors to The Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable phenomenon is being transformed amid the new political realities of the Middle East.

Author : Murat Somer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438486734

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Return to Point Zero by Murat Somer Pdf

How did the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict arise? Why have Turks and Kurds failed for so long to solve it? How can they solve it today? How can social scientists better analyze this and other protracted conflicts and propose better prescriptions for sustainable peace? Return to Point Zero develops a novel framework for analyzing the historical-structural and contemporary causes of ethnic-national conflicts, highlighting an understudied dimension: politics. Murat Somer argues that intramajority group politics rather than majority-minority differences better explains ethnic-national conflicts. Hence, the political-ideological divisions among Turks are the key to understanding the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict; though it was nationalism that produced the Kurdish Question during late-Ottoman imperial modernization, political elite decisions by the Turks created the Kurdish Conflict during the postimperial nation-state building. Today, ideational rigidities reinforce the conflict. Analyzing this conflict from "premodern" times to today, Somer emphasizes two distinct periods: the formative era of 1918–1926 and the post-2011 reformative period. Somer argues that during the formative era, political elites inadequately addressed three fundamental dilemmas of security, identity, and cooperation and includes a discussion of how the legacy of those political elite decisions impacted and framed peace attempts that have failed in the 1990s and 2010s. Return to Point Zero develops new concepts to analyze conflicts and concrete conflict-resolution proposals.

Author : Hamid Akin Unver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317511328

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Turkey's Kurdish Question by Hamid Akin Unver Pdf

The Kurdish question is one of the most complicated and protracted conflicts of the Middle East and will never be resolved unless it is finally defined. The majority of the Kurdish people live in Turkey, which gives the country a unique position in the larger Kurdish conundrum. Society in Turkey is deeply divided over the definition and even existence of the Kurdish question, and this uncertainty has long manifested itself in its complete denial, or in accusations of political rivals of ‘separatism’ and even ‘treason’. Turkey’s Kurdish Question explores how these denial and acknowledgement dynamics often reveal pre-existing political ideology and agenda priorities, themselves becoming political actions. While the very term "Kurdish question" is discussed in the academic literature as a given, a new and systemic study is required to deconstruct and analyze the constitutive parts of this discursive construct. This book provides the first comprehensive study and analysis of the discursive constructions and perceptions of what is broadly defined as the "Kurdish question" in Turkish, European and American political cultures. Furthermore, its new methodological approach to the study of discourse and politics of secessionist conflicts can be applied to many similar intra-state conflict cases. Turkey’s Kurdish Question would suit students and scholars of Middle East studies, Conflict studies and Comparative Politics, as well as Turkish or Kurdish studies. H. Akın Ünver is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. This book is based on his dissertation ‘Defining Turkey’s Kurdish Question‘, which has won the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr award for the best dissertation in the field of social sciences.

Author : Cengiz Gunes,Welat Zeydanlioglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135140717

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The Kurdish Question in Turkey by Cengiz Gunes,Welat Zeydanlioglu Pdf

Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict has cost the lives of 45,000 people, including soldiers, guerrillas and civilians. The complex issue of the Kurdish Question in Turkey is subject to comprehensive examination in this book. This interdisciplinary edited volume brings together chapters by social theorists, political scientists, social anthropologists, sociologists, legal theorists and ethnomusicologists to provide new perspectives on this internationally significant issue. It elaborates on the complexity of the Kurdish question and examines the subject matter from a number of innovative angles. Considering historical, theoretical and political aspects of the Kurdish question in depth and raising issues that have not been discussed sufficiently in existing literature, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism and Conflict, Turkish Politics and Middle Eastern politics more broadly.

Author : Zeynep Gambetti,Joost Jongerden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317581505

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The Kurdish Issue in Turkey by Zeynep Gambetti,Joost Jongerden Pdf

This volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation. Although analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a question of group rights, is also one of spatial relations. By asking a different set of questions, this book examines; which spatial strategies have been employed to deal with Kurds? Which spatial strategies are developed by Kurds to deal with state, and with the neo-liberal turn? How are these strategies absorbed and what counter-strategies are developed, both in cities populated by the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and in other regions? Emphasizing that identity or place, its particularity or uniqueness, arises from social practices and social relations, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers working in Kurdish and Turkish Studies, Urban and Rural Studies and Politics more broadly.

Author : Bülent Aras,Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Arastrmalar Vakf,Pollmark Research Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Kurds
ISBN : 6054023063

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Public Perception of the Kurdish Question in Turkey by Bülent Aras,Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Arastrmalar Vakf,Pollmark Research Corporation Pdf

Author : Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789637326646

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Modernism: Representations of National Culture by Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis Pdf

Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures, from the different ideological approaches and finessing projects of how to create the modern state liberal, conservative, socialist and others to the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities.

Author : H. Akin Ünver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1138858560

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Turkey's Kurdish Question by H. Akin Ünver Pdf

Society in Turkey is deeply divided over the definition and even existence of the Kurdish question, and this uncertainty has long manifested itself in its complete denial, or in accusations of political rivals of 'separatism' and even 'treason'. Turkey's Kurdish Question explores how these denial and acknowledgement dynamics often reveal pre-existing political ideology and agenda priorities, themselves becoming political actions. While the very term "Kurdish question" is discussed in the academic literature as a given, a new and systemic study is required to deconstruct and analyze the constitutive parts of this discursive construct. This book provides the first comprehensive study and analysis of the discursive constructions and perceptions of what is broadly defined as the "Kurdish question" in Turkish, European and American political cultures. Furthermore, its new methodological approach to the study of discourse and politics of secessionist conflicts can be applied to many similar intra-state conflict cases.

Author : Stavroula Chrisdoulaki
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783640766598

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The Kurdish Issue in Turkey by Stavroula Chrisdoulaki Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: A, University of Flensburg, language: English, abstract: The Kurdish issue in the contemporary history is becoming more and more salient considering the geopolitical and strategic area of Middle East. Particularly in Turkey this issue becomes crucial for the future of the whole region since almost half of the worldwide Kurds live in Turkey, who consists of the biggest ethnic minority of the country. It is essential to understand the emergence of this conflict, mainly the distinct Kurdish identity and formation of the collective Kurdish groups that claimed the rights of Kurds. Furthermore, it is important to understand the formation of Turkish Republic and the factors that contributed to the perpetuation and in to some extend the expansion of this conflict. Furthermore, the factors that affected the conflict and led to its recent formation and also the various parameters that this issue has in the country should be analyzed in detail. Eventually, in order to understand a fruitful solution to this issue it is essential to highlight all these variables that have an impact to Kurdish population not only in Turkey but in the whole area of Middle East.

Author : Michael Gunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000302851

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The Kurds In Turkey by Michael Gunter Pdf

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 : Ferhad Ibrahim,Gülistan Gürbey
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3825847446

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The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey by Ferhad Ibrahim,Gülistan Gürbey Pdf

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.