Query Result Set
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:373Hits:19939136Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search
  Hide Options
Sort Order Items / Page
KURDISH MINORITY (2) answer(s).
 
SrlItem
1
ID:   101431


Partition, democracy, and Turkey's Kurdish minority / Gurses, Mehmet   Journal Article
Gurses, Mehmet Journal Article
0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)
Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract Scholars have argued that the outbreak of civil wars destroys the possibilities for ethnic cooperation and conclude that the most effective remedy for ethnic civil conflict is to redraw national borders. Building upon the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, this article shows that peaceful coexistence after ethnic civil wars is possible as long as the state sufficiently democratizes by respecting the political and cultural rights of the ethnic group. These in-depth interviews with members of the Kurdish political elite, together with other informal conversations with dozens of people, show that, despite decades of conflict, the respondents do not deem ethnicity to be a primary obstacle against a peaceful coexistence.
        Export Export
2
ID:   107155


Turkey's Kurdish challenge / Larrabee, F Stephen; Tol, Gonul   Journal Article
Larrabee, F Stephen Journal Article
0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)
Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract Turkey has been wrestling with its Kurdish issue since the foundation of the republic in 1923. The early 'Turkification' policy of the Kemalist elite met strong resistance among the Kurdish minority and sparked several outbreaks of unrest, violently suppressed, in the Kurdish areas in the east and southeast. In 1984 the issue took on a new dimension when the newly founded Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) began conducting terrorist attacks against Turkish territory from safe havens in the Qandil Mountains of northern Iraq. The struggle against the PKK has so far cost 40,000 lives and has hurt both Turkey's internal development and its relations with its Western allies, especially the United States.
        Export Export