The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship /

The Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey : balancing identity, resistance and citizenship /

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Author / Creator:	Gourlay, William, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) : illustrations, map.
Language:	English
Series:	Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey Edinburgh studies on modern Turkey.
Subject:	Kurds -- Turkey. Kurds -- Turkey -- Ethnic identity. Kurds -- Turkey -- Social conditions. Kurds -- Political activity -- Turkey. Ethnic relations. Kurds. Kurds -- Ethnic identity. Kurds -- Political activity. Kurds -- Social conditions. Politics and government. Turkey -- Ethnic relations. Turkey -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Turkey. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Map Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574218

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ISBN:	9781474459228 1474459226 9781474459211 1474459218 9781474459198
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. William Gourlay is a Teaching Associate at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University. His work has appeared in a number of key journals, including the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Middle East Critique and Ethnopolitics as well as Australian press. This is his first book. Print version record.
Summary:	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.--
Other form:	Print version: Gourlay, William. Kurds in Erdoğan's Turkey. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] 9781474459198