| ID | 051846 |
| Title Proper | Turkey's Kurdish conflict: Changing context and domestic and regional implications |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Somer, Murat |
| Publication | Spring 2004. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article develops new analytical categories that are necessary to analyze Turkey's Kurdish conflict in its changed domestic and international environments and to evaluate the policy options. If Turkish state policies and discourse, and that of the other regional and international actors, signal to Kurds that the Turkish and Kurdish identities are mutually exclusive categories with rival interests, radical shifts may occur in Turkish Kurds' social and political identities and preferences. If state policies promote these identities as complements with compatible interests, radical shifts are unlikely and Turkey can play a more constructive regional role. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle East Journal Vol. 58, No.2; Spring 2004: p 235-254 |
| Journal Source | Middle East Journal 2004-04 58, 2 |
| Key Words | Conflict-Turkey-Kurdishtan ; Turkey-Kurdishtan ; Regional Cooperation-Turkey ; Kurdishtan ; Middle East |