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Customized forms of Kurdishness in Turkey : state rhetoric, locality, and language use
This book unpacks the diversity of experiences of Kurdishness in Turkey. By doing that, this book fills the gap within the literature on ethnicities.
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Return to Point Zero
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.
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The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey
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 nationalism, it develops a new empirical dimension to the study of the Kurds in Turkey.
Cengiz Gunes applies an innovative theoretical approach to the analysis of an impressively large volume of primary sources and data drawn from books and magazines published by Kurdish activists, political parties and groups. The analysis focuses on the specific demands articulated by the Kurdish national movement and looks at Kurdish nationalism at a specific level by disaggregating the nationalist discourse, showing variations over time and across different Kurdish nationalist organisations. Situating contemporary Kurdish political identity and its political manifestations within a historical framework, the author examines the historical and structural conditions that gave rise to it and influenced its evolution since the 1960s. The analysis also encompasses an account of the organisational growth and evolution of the Kurdish national movement, including the political parties and groups that were active in the period.
Bringing the study of the organisational development and growth of the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey up to date, this book will be an important reference for students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, social movements, nationalism and conflict.
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Kurds of modern Turkey : migration, neoliberalism and exclusion in Turkish society
The role of the Kurds in Turkey has long been a controversial issue, although discussion has generally been focused around the political and cultural rights and activities of the Kurds. This book aims to bring a fresh approach to this contentious subject by shifting attention to the changing popular image of the Kurds in Turkish cities.
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The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics
The Routledge Handbook of Turkish Politics pulls together contributions from many of the world's leading scholars on different aspects of Turkey.
Turkey today is going through possibly the most turbulent period in its history, with major consequences both nationally and internationally. The country looks dramatically different from the Republic founded by Atatürk in 1923. The pace of change has been rapid and fundamental, with core interlinked changes in ruling institutions, political culture, political economy, and society. Divided into six main parts, this Handbook provides a single-source overview of Turkish politics:
Part I: History and the Making of Contemporary Turkey
Part II: Politics and Institutions
Part III: The Economy, Environment and Development
Part IV: The Kurdish Insurgency and Security
Part V: State, Society and Rights
Part VI: External Relations
This comprehensive Handbook is an essential resource for students of Politics, International Relations, International/Security Studies with an interest in contemporary Turkey.
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Kurds in Turkey : ethnographies of heterogeneous experiences
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.
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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan
These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence. Abdullah Ocalan led the struggle for Kurdish liberation for more than 20 years until his capture in 1999. Now, writing from prison in Turkey, he has inspired a new political movement. Called Democratic Confederalism, this revolutionary model is developing on the ground in parts of Syria and Turkey; it represents an alternative to religious sectarianism, patriarchy, capitalism and chauvinistic nationalism, providing the blueprint for a burgeoning radical democratic society. This selection of Ocalan's writings is an indispensable introduction for anyone wanting to engage with his political ideas. His central concepts address the Kurdish question, gender, Democratic Confederalism and the future of the nation. With The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan, his most influential ideas can now be considered and debated in the light of his continuing legacy, most notably in the ongoing revolution in Rojava.
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Customized forms of Kurdishness in Turkey : state rhetoric, locality, and language use
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.
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