The Kurdish Question in Turkey
eBook - ePub

The Kurdish Question in Turkey

New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Kurdish Question in Turkey

New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction: Turkey and the Kurds
  9. 1 The role of the judicial system in the politicide of the Kurdish opposition
  10. 2 The representation of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the mainstream Turkish media
  11. 3 Mobilising the Kurds in Turkey: Newroz as a myth
  12. 4 State sovereignty and the politics of fear: Ethnography of political violence and the Kurdish struggle in Turkey
  13. 5 Re-defining the role of women within the Kurdish national movement in Turkey in the 1990s
  14. 6 Taking to the streets! Kurdish collective action in Turkey
  15. 7 Repression or reform? An analysis of the AKP’s Kurdish language policy
  16. 8 Confederalism and autonomy in Turkey: The Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the reinvention of democracy
  17. 9 The impact of the EU on minority rights: The Kurds as a case
  18. 10 Music and reconciliation in Turkey
  19. 11 Elimination or integration of pro-Kurdish politics: Limits of the AKP’s democratic initiative
  20. 12 Political reconciliation in Turkey: Challenges and prospects
  21. Index