The Kurds in Erdoğan’s Turkey : : Balancing Identity, Resistance and Citizenship / / William Gourlay.

Investigates Kurdish political identity under the tightening rule of the Justice and Development Party in TurkeyExamines Kurdish identity in the Republic of Turkey and inquires whether there is room for pluralism in Turkey’s political sphereIncorporates data gathered in the streets, bazaars and teah...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey : ESMT
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Eruption in Diyarbakır
  • 1 Identity, ethnicity, politics: from Kemalism to ‘New Turkey’
  • 2 Talking to Kurds about ‘Identity’
  • 3 Demarcating Kurdish culture
  • 4 The Kurds and Islam: defying hegemony and the ‘caliphate’
  • 5 Contesting homeland(s): city, soil and landscape
  • 6 Kurdayetî: Pan-Kurdish sentiment and solidarity
  • 7 Oppression, solidarity, resistance
  • 8 Kurds as citizens
  • Conclusion: reconciling ethnic identity, citizenship and the ‘ideal’ in Erdoğan’s Turkey?
  • Bibliography
  • Index