1st Edition
Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey Transforming Ethnic Conflict
By Mustafa Gürbüz
Copyright 2016
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction, Chapter I. Kurdish Movements in the Southeast Chapter II. Exogenous Shocks at the Eve of the Millenium Chapter III. Civic Competition and Conflict Transformation Chapter IV. Resemblance and Difference: Constructing Kurdish Civil Society Chapter V. Going Native: Contesting Kurdish Islam Chapter VI. Islam Careser e: Islamic Activists Discover Kurdish Chapter VII. Enemies of the Deep State: Narrative Conquests and Symbolic Localization, Conclusion, References
Biography
Mustafa Gürbüz is a policy fellow in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University and teaches Middle East politics at American University in Washington, DC.
