Nationalism : distilling the cultural and the political -- The seeds of Turkey's Kurdish question -- Enter the PKK -- The discourse and objectives of the PKK -- Sources of motivations : the organization and the individual -- The rise and fall of the PKK : questions, confrontations and the impasse -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : apparent obscurity
Summary
"The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader, it explores the ideational nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage." "Turkey's Kurds also reappraises the Kurdish movement in Turkey and presents insights into the nature of Kurdish social structure, thinking, and the particularities of the Kurdish ethnic distinctness. Turkey's Kurds is essential reading for those with interests in the PKK, Turkey, and Turkish politics."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-304) and index
