The political economy of the Kurdish question in Turkey : de-development in eastern and Southeastern Anatolia
Journal: SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London)
Year: 2014

This thesis examines the linkages between economic development in the predominantly Kurdish provinces in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia (ESA) and Turkey's Kurdish question.The study adopts a historical, structural, and political-economic approach, which entails that socioeconomic and political developments, structures and transformations in ESA are analysed in juxtaposition with those of other domains within the context of the larger geographical area and political entity of which these terri