In the early 2000s, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rose to power by contesting the electoral dominance of pro-Kurdish parties in the Kurdish-majority provinces of Turkey. The existing literature has accounted for the AKP's popularity in these provinces ...
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In a book dated 2002, there is a map of the Mediterranean region which identifies areas where seasonal movements of sheep flocks still take place. Turkey figures prominently, but only the western part of the country is mentioned. From the eastern part, the Kurdish region, nothing seems to fi...
Cengiz Çandar, “On Turkey’s Kurdish Question: Its Roots, Present State and Prospects” inUnderstanding Turkey’s Kurdish, eds. Bilgin and Sarihan, pp. 59–72; Clémence Scalbert-Yügel, “The PKK, the Kurdish Movement and the Emergence of Cultural Policies in Turkey” inThe Kurdish Quest...
in West Asia (xorawe-î asiya) and segmented into North, West, Eastand South Kurdistan, with each of the single parts ‘under the command’(bindestî) of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, respectively. Alternative views addto Greater Kurdistan a Northeastern part; namely, the Kurdish ...
He told me,“There was a wave of Kurdish refugees coming down to Syria (from Turkey) in the 1940s, and the second wave of them in the 1960s when the PKK started the armed rebellion against the Turkish government in what was Arab lands." ...
Turkey's bolstered role in the fight against ISIS has not gone down well with the entire Turkish public, however. About 1,000 anti-war protesters were met with water cannon and tear gas by police in the capital city of Ankara on Saturday, forcing the crowd to disperse. ...
Kurdish polities in northern Iraq and Syria, the conventional minority status of Kurds stood as a major obstacle before the recognition of “Kurdish nationhood” even in certain provinces where they constitute the undisputed majority (i.e., parts of east and southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, nort...
Turkey - Kurdish Conflict, Ethnicity, Borders: The public security situation also worsened, notably in the Kurdish provinces of the southeast. Following major social changes associated with the commercialization of agriculture since the 1950s, there were
The Turkish government suppressed Kurdish political agitation in the eastern provinces and encouraged the migration of Kurds to the urbanized western portion of Turkey, thus diluting the concentration of Kurdish population in the uplands. Periodic rebellions occurred, and in 1978 Abdullah Öcalan formed...