Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics : : The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam / / Zeki Sarigil.
The Kurdish Movement in Turkey’s growing alliance with Islam One of the fault lines of Turkish politics traditionally has been the divide between religious and secular movements. However, as Zeki Sarigil argues, the secular Kurdish movement in Turkey has increasingly become aligned with Islam. As a...
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Sarigil, Zeki, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics : The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam / Zeki Sarigil. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource : 13 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The boundary approach to ethnicity and nationalism -- 2. The Islamic opening of the Kurdish movement -- 3. Explaining the Kurdish movement’s boundary making -- Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. List of interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Kurdish Movement in Turkey’s growing alliance with Islam One of the fault lines of Turkish politics traditionally has been the divide between religious and secular movements. However, as Zeki Sarigil argues, the secular Kurdish movement in Turkey has increasingly become aligned with Islam. As a result, Islam has become part of the movement’s political discourse, strategies and actions. Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics traces the evolving relations between the leftist, secular Kurdish movement and Islam, from an apathetic and/or antagonistic attitude in the 1970s and 1980s to an increasingly Islam-friendly approach in the 1990s to an attitude of accommodation and the rise of Kurdish-Islamic synthesis in the early 2000s. Based on 104 interviews in several provinces in Turkey (primarily Ankara, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, and Tunceli) between 2011 and 2015 as well as ethnographic data, public opinion surveys and statements from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdish leaders, Sarigil shows how the secular Kurdish movement increasingly has been endorsing Islam and Islamic actors. The reasons for this Islamic opening are global, national, and local; Sarigil demonstrates that a group of strategic and ideological factors have encouraged and/or forced Kurdish leaders to redraw symbolic and social boundaries of the movement. Namely, with the end of the Cold War support for Marxist ideas collapsed, creating increasingly more favorable responses towards religion. In addition, the movement’s need to expand its social basis and popularity; electoral politics; and legitimacy struggles against rival political actors were other major factors, which triggered the Kurdish movement’s boundary expansion (i.e. its Islamic opening). The study also shows that the Kurdish boundary making was not without any tension or contestation. The boundary expansion by Kurdish ethnopolitical elites triggered both internal and external boundary contestations. The movement’s embrace of Islam on a more widespread level has major ramifications for politics in Turkey and in the region. Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics has important insight into the PKK, modern Turkish and Islamic societies and highlights the increasing role of Islam in global politics. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Ethnicity Turkey. Islam and politics Turkey. Kurds History Autonomy and independence movements. Kurds Turkey. POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. bisacsh Islam and politics. Islam fieldwork. Islam. Islamic opening. Kurdish boundary work. Kurdish ethnopolitics. Kurdish-Islamic synthesis. Middle Eastern politics. Middle Eastern religion. Turkey and Islam. Turkish fieldwork. alternative considerations. boundary contestation. boundary contestations. boundary contraction. boundary expansion. boundary-making strategies. constructivism. electoral politics. ethnic boundary making. ethno-nationalist movement. legitimacy struggles. political Islam. primordialism. religion and nationalism. secular Kurdish movement. secular movement. secularism. social boundaries. social popularity. symbolic boundaries. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110722741 print 9781479882168 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479821181.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479821181 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479821181/original |
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