| Description |
208 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The development of the Kurdish nationalism movement in Turkey since the 1980s / Gülistan Gürbey -- Turkey's Kurdish problem in the 1990s : recent trends / Aram Nigogosian -- Kurdish infighting : the PKK-KDP conflict / Michael Gunter -- Under the gun : Turkish foreign policy and the Kurdish question / Henri Barkey -- The Kurdish question and Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria, Iran, Russia and Iraq since the Gulf War / Robert Olson -- More apparent than real? the impact of the Kurdish issue on Euro-Turkish relations / Philip Robins -- Political crisis and the Kurdish issue in Turkey / Hamit Bozarslan -- The New Democracy Movement in Turkey : a response to liberal capitalism and Kurdish ethnonationalism / Robert Olson and Yücel Bozdağlıoğlu -- Nationalism and the rule of law in Turkey : the elimination of Kurdish representation during the 1990s / Mark Muller |
| Summary |
The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, numbering between twenty and twenty five million. Approximately fifteen million live in contiguous regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, an area that they call Kurdistan, yet they do not have a country of their own. Formal attempts to establish such a state were crushed by the larger and more powerful countries in the region after both world wars. But the Gulf war, the Iran-Iraq war, the collapse of |
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The Soviet Union, and the end of the cold war have worked to reinvigorate a Kurdish nationalist movement. The movement is a powderkeg waiting to explode. With the majority of Kurds living within its borders, no country faces this threat more squarely than Turkey. And because of Turkey's concept of a unified, cohesive nationhood - in which the existence of ethnic minorities is not acknowledged - these tensions are more difficult to manage in Turkey than elsewhere |
| Analysis |
Geschichte 1980-1995 |
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Kurds Politics and government Turkey |
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Nationalism Turkey |
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Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê |
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Turkey Foreign relations 1980- |
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Turkey Politics and government 1980- |
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Ethnic relations |
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Human rights |
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Kurds |
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Middle East |
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Nationalism |
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Overseas item |
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Turkey |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê.
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Partiya Karkere K distan
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Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government.
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Nationalism -- Turkey.
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- Foreign relations -- 1980-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000932
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Turkey -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89005202
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| Author |
Olson, Robert W.
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| LC no. |
96021501 |
| ISBN |
0813108969 paperback alkaline paper |
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0813119995 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780813108964 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780813119991 cloth alkaline paper |
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