Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question - Softcover

 
9781498515122: Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Cengiz Çandar is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies.He is a scholar and journalist, is the leading expert in Turkey on the Middle East, the main architect of the Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement as President Turgut Özal’s advisor in the 1990s.

Michael M. Gunter is professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee.

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ISBN 10:  0739184024 ISBN 13:  9780739184028
Publisher: Lexington Books, 2013
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