1st Edition

Generations and Violence A Comparative Study of the Basque and Kurdish Conflicts

By Barış Tuğrul Copyright 2027
298 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a qualitative cohort analysis in a comparative case study of national identity and political violence in the Basque and Kurdish contexts. Rooted in the author’s work concerning social reproduction mechanisms of political violence, it examines two non-state politico-military organizations, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom) and Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan... Read more

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgment
List of abbreviations (Basque case)
List of abbreviations (Kurdish case)
Glossary – Basque case
Glossary – Kurdish case
Introduction
1. Emergence and Generational Evolution of Basque Nationalism
2. Emergence and Generational Evolution of Kurdish Nationalism
3. From Repression to Resistance: Political Violence and ETA in Late Francoist and Democratic Spain
4. The Road to Armed Struggle: Political Repression and Kurdish Militancy in Turkey
5. Between Strategy and Stalemate: The MLNV’s Offensive Turn and the Erosion of Support in the Basque Country
6. A Decisive Decade: Low-Intensity War and Mass Mobilization in the Kurdish National Liberation Movement
7. The Deadlock of Violence in the Basque Country: The Path Towards Negotiations and Dissolution
8. The Kurdish Question Reconfigured: Violence, Support, and Strategic Shift of the PKK
References
Appendix 1. In-depth Interviews (Basque case)
Appendix 2. In-depth Interviews (Kurdish case)
Index

Biography

Barış Tuğrul holds a BA in Communication Sciences from Ankara University, an MA in International Relations and a second MA in the Sociocultural Analysis of Communication and Knowledge from the Complutense University of Madrid. He earned a PhD in Political Studies from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Bizkaia, Spain). He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a fellow researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey.