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The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey: Balancing Identity, Resistance and Citizenship (Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey)

The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey: Balancing Identity, Resistance and Citizenship (Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey)

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Publication Date: May 30th, 2022
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
9781474459204
Pages:
266
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Description

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.

About the Author

William Gourlay teaches politics and Middle East history at Monash University and is Research Associate at the Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University. He has published analysis, book reviews, policy briefs and peer-reviewed research in a range of online forums and international media, including in the key journals Middle East Critique, Ethnopolitics, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly and Ethnic & Racial Studies.