The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Subtitle: Obstacles and Chances for Peace and Democracy
Contributors: Ferhad Ibrahim (Editor); Gulistan Gurbey (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780312236298
Subjects: Ethnic Sociology; Separatist Movements; Social Science; History - General History; History: World; Ethnic Studies - General; International Relations - General; Middle East - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Political; 1980-; Ethnic relations; Kurds; Politics and government; Turkey
First sentence: Twice, since the end of the Ottoman Empire, the ,,violence" has emerged as the major element of the shaping of the Kurdish movement, and, consequently, of the Kurdish political arena in Turkey as a whole: during 1920-1938 and during the period which began in the second part of the 1970s and which continues as a guerrilla warfare since 1984.