The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship / William Gourlay.

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Gourlay, William [author.]

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TextSeries: Edinburgh studies on modern TurkeyPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text
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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781474459228
1474459226
9781474459211
1474459218

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey.DDC classification:

956.100491597

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DR435.K87eb

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Contents:

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?

Summary: This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics -- but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakır, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Within the context of Turkey's troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppression and conflict, Kurds now assert a more confident presence in Turkey's politics -- but does increasing visibility mean a rejection of Turkey? Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakır, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book generates new understandings of Kurdish identity and political aspirations. Highlighting elements of Kurdish identity including Newroz, the Kurdish language, connections to religion, landscape and cross-border ties, it offers a portrait of Kurdish political life in a Turkey increasingly dominated by its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Within the context of Turkey's troubled trajectory towards democratisation, it documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.-- Provided by publisher.

William Gourlay is a Teaching Associate at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His work has appeared in a number of key journals, including the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Middle East Critique and Ethnopolitics as well as Australian press. This is his first book.

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