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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
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  • DR435 .K873 2020
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Contents:
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?
Subject: 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 --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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?

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 --

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