Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question

Herausgeber: Bilgin, Fevzi; Sarihan, Ali

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, comprising chapters by leading experts, delves into the complicated nature of Turkey’s Kurdish issue. Contributors discusses the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the contemporary Kurdish movement and its violent legacy, civil society efforts in Turkey’s Kurdish region, and the international dimensions of the Kurdish question.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781498515122
• ISBN-10: 1498515126
• Artikelnr.: 42204625

Autorenporträt

Fevzi Bilgin is the executive director of the Rethink Institute in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise are constitutional politics, religion and politics, political liberalism, Turkish politics, and Middle Eastern politics. He received Bachelor's Degree from Ankara University and PhD in political science from University of Pittsburgh. He previously taught at Sakarya University and St. Mary's College of Maryland. He has published many articles and essays, including a monograph, Political Liberalism in Muslim Societies and most recently, an edited volume, Resolving Turkey's Kurdish Issue. Ali Sarihan is a doctoral candidate in School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He previously received MA degrees in Democracy and Governance at Georgetown University, Department of Government, and Comparative and International Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington. His studies focus on social movements, revolutions, democratization, and strategic diplomacy tools in the Middle East and North Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Fevzi Bilgin, Introduction
Part I: The Genesis and the Legacy of Kurdish Nationalism
Chapter 2: Djene Rhys Bajalan, Early Kurdish 'Nationalists' and the
Emergence of Modern Kurdish Identity Politics: 1851 to 1908
Chapter 3: Oral Çalislar, The Kurdish Issue in Turkey: Social, Political,
and Cultural Dimensions
Chapter 4: Fuat Keyman and Umut Özkirimli, The "Kurdish Question"
Revisited: Modernity, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Turkey
Part 2: The Kurdish Question Today: The movement, the conflict, and the
future
Chapter 5: Cengiz Çandar, On Turkey's Kurdish Question: Its Roots, Present
State, and Prospects
Chapter 6: Michael M. Gunter, The Multifaceted Kurdish Movement in Turkey
Chapter 7: Ali Sarihan, The Two Periods of the PKK Conflict: 1984-1999 and
2004-2010
Chapter 8: Kiliç Bugra Kanat, Ending Ceasefires for Political Survival: The
Use of Diversionary Strategies by the PKK Leadership
Chapter 9: Hugh Pope, Turkey and the Democratic Opening for the Kurds
Chapter 10: Gökhan Bacik and Bezen B. Coskun, Explaining Turkey's Failure
to Develop a Political Solution for the Kurdish Problem
Part 3: Civil Society Efforts in Turkey's Kurdish region
Chapter 11: Mustafa Gürbüz, Revitalization of Kurdish Islamic Sphere and
Revival of Hizbullah in Turkey
Chapter 12: Dogan Koç, The Hizmet Movement and the Kurdish Region
Part 4: International Dimensions of the Kurdish Question
Chapter 13: H. Akin Ünver, Turkey's Kurdish Question, the United States and
Europe: Historical Perspective
Chapter 14: Joshua W. Walker, International Dimensions of the Kurdish
Question in Turkey