Turkey's Kurdish Question: Discourse & Politics Since 1990

dc.contributor.author Ünver, Hamid Akın
dc.contributor.author Ünver, Hamid Akın
dc.contributor.other International Relations
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-02T19:57:03Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-02T19:57:03Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.description.abstract The Kurdish question is one of the most complicated and protracted conflicts of the Middle East and will never be resolved unless it is finally defined. The majority of the Kurdish people live in Turkey, which gives the country a unique position in the larger Kurdish conundrum. Society in Turkey is deeply divided over the definition and even existence of the Kurdish question, and this uncertainty has long manifested itself in its complete denial, or in accusations of political rivals of 'separatism' and even 'treason'. Turkey's Kurdish Question explores how these denial and acknowledgement dynamics often reveal pre-existing political ideology and agenda priorities, themselves becoming political actions. While the very term "Kurdish question" is discussed in the academic literature as a given, a new and systemic study is required to deconstruct and analyze the constitutive parts of this discursive construct. This book provides the first comprehensive study and analysis of the discursive constructions and perceptions of what is broadly defined as the "Kurdish question" in Turkish, European and American political cultures. Furthermore, its new methodological approach to the study of discourse and politics of secessionist conflicts can be applied to many similar intra-state conflict cases. Turkey's Kurdish Question would suit students and scholars of Middle East studies, Conflict studies and Comparative Politics, as well as Turkish or Kurdish studies. © 2015 Hamid Akin Ünver. All rights reserved. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 8
dc.identifier.doi 10.4324/9781315717883 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 178 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 9781138858565
dc.identifier.isbn 9781317511328
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84942568852 en_US
dc.identifier.startpage 1 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3858
dc.institutionauthor Ünver, Hamid Akın en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis Inc. en_US
dc.relation.journal Turkey's Kurdish Question: Discourse & Politics Since 1990 en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Kitap Bölümü - Uluslararası en_US
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