Turkey's Kurds in perspective
Subtitle: a theoretical analysis of Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK
By: Ali Kemal Özcan.
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê; Kurds -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Kurds -- Turkey -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader, it explores the ideational nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage." "Turkey's Kurds also reappraises the Kurdish movement in Turkey and presents insights into the nature of Kurdish social structure, thinking, and the particularities of the Kurdish ethnic distinctness. Turkey's Kurds is essential reading for those with interests in the PKK, Turkey, and Turkish politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: 1. Nationalism; title: 2. The seeds of Turkey's Kurdish question; title: 3. Enter the PKK; title: 4. The discourse and objectives of the PKK; title: 5. Sources of motivations; title: 6. The rise and fall of the PKK; title: 7. Conclusion.