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The Kurdish Question in Turkey
New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation
Series: Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern Kurdish 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...
To Be Published October 18th 2013 by Routledge
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The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey
From Protest to Resistance
Series: Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge