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Turkey's Kurdish Question Discourse & Politics Since 1990
Introduction 1. The transnational Kant and the search for a Diyarbakır social contract: Emancipation discourses in the European Parliament and US Congress 2. Hobbes in Washington and Brussels: Defining Kurdish Chaos and Turkish Order 3. Schrödinger’s Kurd: Can the Kurdish question both exist and not exist in Turkey? Concluding Analysis Epilogue: Justice and Development Party (AKP) Discourse on the Kurdish Question
Biography
H. Akın Ünver is an assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University. This book is based on his dissertation ‘Defining Turkey’s Kurdish Question‘, which has won the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2010 Malcolm H. Kerr award for the best dissertation in the field of social sciences.
"Throughout the past few decades, there have been an increasing number of English-language studies on various aspects of Turkey’s unresolved Kurdish question. However, Akin Unver’s work is different in the sense that it provides a comprehensive, comparative, and rich analysis of the discursive construction of the Kurdish question within three legislatures, namely the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT), the American Congress, and the European Parliament. Unver’s focus on these three legislative organs seems well-justified because it allows discourse analyses of different actors both from the government and the opposition."
E-Interanational Relations
