Primitive Rebels Or Revolutionary Modernizers: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey

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Zed Books, 2000 - 258 من الصفحات

Protests worldwide followed the capture and trial of the Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Öcalan in 1999. Millions of people are now aware of the long fight by Öcalan's PKK guerillas in Turkey. But where does the PKK come from? What are its aims? Who supports it? What will its future be without Öcalan to guide it? And, most important of all, is there now a real prospect for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey and a democratic future that recognises the cultural plurality of the country?

This timely book seeks answers to these questions and provides an informative, up-to-date and readable account of the Kurdish reality in Turkey today.

Its focus is a critical examination of the Kurdish nationalist movement -- especially the largest and most powerful grouping, the PKK. Its evolution is traced. Initially reliant on armed struggle, the PKK had in fact, the author shows, made significant strides towards becoming a mainstream mass political movement before Öcalan's arrest.

Original interviews with Icalan, his rival Kurdish nationalist leaders and ordinary PKK guerillas are woven into the text. They make possible an understanding of Abdullah Öcalan's personality as well as revealing much about leadership in contemporary Kurdish nationalism. Of particular interest also is the author's revisionist discussion of the Alevi Kurds.

 

المحتوى

The Kurds as Primitive Rebels
1
Who are the Kurds?
14
Kurdish Religious and Ethnic Divisions 30
30
The Development of the Kurdish National
54
Young Turk rebellion 63 The Treaty of Sèvres
70
The Ararat rising 76 The Dersim rebellion
79
The Political Economy of Turkish Kurdistan
93
The Kurdish National Movement and the Turkish
129
The PKK and the real Kurdish personality139
156
From Serîhildan to Europe
162
Leadership in the Kurdish National
205
Eric Hobsbawms primitive rebels 206 Kurdish state
216
PKK Chronology
222
Bibliography
228
Index
251
حقوق النشر

Turkey 130 The Kurdish reawakening 131 The Partiya
136

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Dr Paul J White teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Deakin University. A Kurdish Studies specialist, he has contributed numerous papers and articles to learned journals, particularly on the Kurdish Question. He is the Editor (with William S. Logan) of Remaking the Middle East (1997). He is a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC. Dr Paul J White teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Deakin University. A Kurdish Studies specialist, he has contributed numerous papers and articles to learned journals, particularly on the Kurdish Question. He is the Editor (with William S. Logan) of Remaking the Middle East (1997). He is a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC.

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