Turkey's Kurdish Question
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Turkey's Kurdish Question

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Turkey's Kurdish Question

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. ABOUT THE Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict Series
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction Why Turkey Matters
  8. 1 - Origins of the Problem: The Roots of Kurdish Nationalism
  9. 2 - Enter the PKK
  10. 3 - The Building of Kurdish National Consciousness
  11. 4 - The Kurdish Issue in Turkish Public Opinion
  12. 5 - Turkish Government Policies in the Southeast
  13. 6 - The Kurds and Turkish Foreign Policy
  14. 7 - Toward a Solution of the Kurdish Problem
  15. Conclusion
  16. Index
  17. About the Authors