The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds

The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds
Author: Joost Jongerden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004155570

Drawing on central issues in social sciences, modernity, nationalism, conflict and rural development, this book offers a comprehensive reading of settlement and resettlement in Turkey, not only the village evacuations in Turkish Kurdistan in the 1980s and 1990s, but also previous settlement and resettlement policies.

The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

The Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Author: Ferhad Ibrahim
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783825847449

At the core of the interest are the controversy on the political implementation of violence, the relevance of the international law for the conflict, the regional and foreign relations of the PKK, and the chances and obstacles of a peaceful democratic conflict resolution."--Jacket.

Turkey

Turkey
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2012
Genre: Conflict management
ISBN:

Turkey's Kurdish conflict is becoming more violent, with more than 700 dead in fourteen months, the highest casualties in thirteen years. This report focuses on the PKK and its side organisations, building on Crisis Group's September 2011 report on ending the insurgency. A subsequent report will examine the relevance of the Kurdish movement's demands from the perspective of Turkey's main Kurdish-speaking city of Diyarbakır. Another will profile Turkish nationalists' views of the conflict. All these reports constitute an attempt to bridge the gap in perceptions, information and trust that exists between the Kurdish movement, which feels unjustly targeted by the Turkish state, and mainstream Turkish opinion, which is understandably angered by PKK violence, in order to help define a comprehensive yet realistic state policy for resolving the conflict.

The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds

The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurds
Author: Burak Bilgehan Özpek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351347780

In January 2013, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government initiated a peace process in order to settle the Kurdish question through peaceful means. However, this sanguine atmosphere gradually disappeared, before finally collapsing after the general elections of 7 June 2015. This book addresses the question of why the peace building attempts that culminated between 2013 and 2015 failed. It deals with the historical background of the Kurdish question and contemporary complexities of the Turkish politics to explain how they eventually jeopardized the peace process. This is an important and relevant research question because the Kurdish question has been viewed as a variable shaping Turkey’s domestic politics and its foreign relations. The Kurdish question's influence on Turkish foreign policy is not confined to its neighbors. Turkey's relations with the United States and the European Union was also shaped by the issues stemmed from the Kurdish question. As this was the first serious peace attempt in a conflict that lasted over three decades, examination of why it failed will inform any future attempts at peace and will help pinpoint the potential path that Turkey might face in both the domestic and international realm. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in Turkey and the Kurdish issue, peacekeeping, security studies and Middle East Politics.

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey
Author: Zeynep Gambetti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-04-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317581504

This volume gives a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey from a spatial perspective that takes into account geographical variations in identity formation, exclusion and political mobilisation. Although analysis of Turkey’s Kurdish issue from a spatial perspective is not new, spatial analyses are still relatively scarce. More often than not, Kurdish studies consist of time-centred work. In this book, the attention is shifted from outcome-oriented analysis of transformation in time towards a spatial analysis. The authors in this book discuss the spatial production of home, identity, work, in short, of being in the world. The contributions are based on the tacit avowal that the Kurdish question, in addition to being a question of group rights, is also one of spatial relations. By asking a different set of questions, this book examines; which spatial strategies have been employed to deal with Kurds? Which spatial strategies are developed by Kurds to deal with state, and with the neo-liberal turn? How are these strategies absorbed and what counter-strategies are developed, both in cities populated by the Kurds in south-eastern Turkey and in other regions? Emphasizing that identity or place, its particularity or uniqueness, arises from social practices and social relations, this book is essential reading for scholars and researchers working in Kurdish and Turkish Studies, Urban and Rural Studies and Politics more broadly.

Settlement Wars

Settlement Wars
Author: Joost Peter Jongerden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006
Genre: Forced migration
ISBN: 9789085043706

Turkey's Kurdish Question

Turkey's Kurdish Question
Author: Henri J. Barkey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780847685530

The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity-politically and through violence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society-ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge-have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. This study explores the roots, dimensions, character, and evolution of the problem, offers a range of approaches to a resolution of the conflict, and draws broader parallels between the Kurdish question and other separatist movements worldwide.

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey

The Kurdish Issue in Turkey
Author: Stavroula Chrisdoulaki
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2010-12-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3640767004

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: A, University of Flensburg, language: English, abstract: The Kurdish issue in the contemporary history is becoming more and more salient considering the geopolitical and strategic area of Middle East. Particularly in Turkey this issue becomes crucial for the future of the whole region since almost half of the worldwide Kurds live in Turkey, who consists of the biggest ethnic minority of the country. It is essential to understand the emergence of this conflict, mainly the distinct Kurdish identity and formation of the collective Kurdish groups that claimed the rights of Kurds. Furthermore, it is important to understand the formation of Turkish Republic and the factors that contributed to the perpetuation and in to some extend the expansion of this conflict. Furthermore, the factors that affected the conflict and led to its recent formation and also the various parameters that this issue has in the country should be analyzed in detail. Eventually, in order to understand a fruitful solution to this issue it is essential to highlight all these variables that have an impact to Kurdish population not only in Turkey but in the whole area of Middle East.

The Kurdish Question and Turkey

The Kurdish Question and Turkey
Author: Kemal Kirişci
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1997
Genre: Kurdish question
ISBN: 9780714647463

This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the Kurdish question in Turkey, tracing its developments from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the present day.

The Kurdish Question in Turkey

The Kurdish Question in Turkey
Author: Cengiz Gunes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135140634

Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict has cost the lives of 45,000 people, including soldiers, guerrillas and civilians. The complex issue of the Kurdish Question in Turkey is subject to comprehensive examination in this book. This interdisciplinary edited volume brings together chapters by social theorists, political scientists, social anthropologists, sociologists, legal theorists and ethnomusicologists to provide new perspectives on this internationally significant issue. It elaborates on the complexity of the Kurdish question and examines the subject matter from a number of innovative angles. Considering historical, theoretical and political aspects of the Kurdish question in depth and raising issues that have not been discussed sufficiently in existing literature, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism and Conflict, Turkish Politics and Middle Eastern politics more broadly.