The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship /

This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics -- but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Rec...

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Päätekijä: Gourlay, William (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2020]
Sarja:Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey.
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv136c4g9
Sisällysluettelo:
  • Introduction : Eruption in Diyarbakır
  • 1. Identity, ethnicity, politics : from Kemalism to 'New Turkey'
  • 2. Talking to Kurds about 'identity'
  • 3. Demarcating Kurdish culture
  • 4. The Kurds and Islam : defying hegemony and the 'caliphate'
  • 5. Contesting homeland(s) : city, soil and landscape
  • 6. Kurdayetî : Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarity
  • 7. Oppression, solidarity, resistance
  • 8. Kurds as citizens
  • Conclusion : Reconciling ethnic identity, citizenship and the 'ideal' in Erdoğan's Turkey?