Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict

• Tác giả: Mustafa Cagri Gurbuz
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9048527427
• ISBN-13: 978-9089648785
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 956.1045 *Turkey
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (200 pages) : , illustrations
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312939
• Chủ đề: 1. Kurds--Autonomy and independence movements; 2. POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process; 3. Politics and government; 4. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General; 5. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences

Tóm tắt

880-01 This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the existence of Kurds, calling them "mountain Turks," and Kurdish populated cities were ruled under martial law. Kurdish politics in Turkey was dominated by a revolutionary movement, the PKK, which engaged in violent clashes with the state. Less than a decade later, the PKK's rebellion had all but ended, and Kurdish political and civic movements of numerous stripes had emerged. The Turkish state even introduced an official Kurdish-language TV channel. How did this rapid change occur? Gürbüz proposes that contending social movements has transformed the politics of the region, ushering in an era of post-conflict political and cultural competition.