Kurds of Modern Turkey
            
                Library of Modern Middle East Studies
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781848854680
Description: "The role of the Kurds in Turkey has long been a controversial issue, although discussion has generally been focused around the political and cultural rights and activities of the Kurds. This book aims to bring a new approach to this contentious subject by shifting attention to the changing popular image of the Kurds in Turkish cities. It focuses particularly on the ways in which the middle-class in Turkish cities develop an exclusionary discourse against the Kurds. Cenk Saracoglu investigates the social origins of such a perception by bringing into focus how neoliberal economic policies and Kurdish migration have transformed urban life in Turkey."--Bloomsbury Publishing.