The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship /
Gourlay, William,
The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship / William Gourlay. - 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, map - Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey . - Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.--
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.
9781474459228 (webready pdf) 1474459226 (webready pdf) 9781474459211 (epub) 1474459218 (epub) (hardback)
22573/ctv135rc1g JSTOR
GBC101255 bnb
020044259 Uk
2000-2099
Kurds--Turkey.
Kurds--Ethnic identity.--Turkey
Kurds--Social conditions.--Turkey
Kurds--Political activity--Turkey.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Civics & Citizenship.
Ethnic relations.
Kurds.
Kurds--Ethnic identity.
Kurds--Political activity.
Kurds--Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.
Asie Mineure--Relations interethniques.
Empire ottoman--Politique et gouvernement--21e siècle.
Turkey.
Electronic books.
DR435.K87eb
956.100491597
The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship / William Gourlay. - 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, map - Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey . - Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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.--
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.
9781474459228 (webready pdf) 1474459226 (webready pdf) 9781474459211 (epub) 1474459218 (epub) (hardback)
22573/ctv135rc1g JSTOR
GBC101255 bnb
020044259 Uk
2000-2099
Kurds--Turkey.
Kurds--Ethnic identity.--Turkey
Kurds--Social conditions.--Turkey
Kurds--Political activity--Turkey.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Civics & Citizenship.
Ethnic relations.
Kurds.
Kurds--Ethnic identity.
Kurds--Political activity.
Kurds--Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Politics and government--21st century.
Asie Mineure--Relations interethniques.
Empire ottoman--Politique et gouvernement--21e siècle.
Turkey.
Electronic books.
DR435.K87eb
956.100491597