The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities

✍ Scribed by Cuma Çiçek

Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 368
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In fact, Kurds in Turkey have many diverse political and ideological orientations. Focusing on the elites of these informal groups - national, religious and economic - Cuma Cicek analyses the consequences of the divisions and subsequent prospects of consensus building. Using an innovative theoretical framework founded on constructivism, the 'three 'I's' model and various strands of sociology, Cicek considers the dynamics that affect the Kurds in Turkey across issues as diverse as the central state, geopolitics, nationalism, Europeanisation and globalisation. In so doing, he examines the consensus-building process of 1999-2015 and presents the possible route to a unified Kurdish political state.Cicek's in-depth and meticulously researched work adds an indispensable layer of nuance to our conception of the Kurdish community. This is an important book for students or researchers with an interest in the history and present of the Kurds and their future in Turkey and across the Middle East.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Author Bio
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Theoretical Framework
2. Actors: Kurdish national, Religious and Ecnomic Blocs
3. Muslim, Alevi or Kurd? Religion, Nation, and Identity conflicts
4. Nation or Class? Conflict of Interest
5. Conflict over the Institutional Form of a Kurdish Political Region: Decentralisation, Regionalisation or Federation
6. Negotiations among three Kurdish Blocs
7. The system of Action: Historical. State-Based, Geopolitical, European and Global Dynamics
Conclusion: Towards a Kurdish Political Region?
Epilogue: Continuities and Changes (2013–15)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover

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