The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990s: Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East

Book Overview

" In this volume, leading scholars on the history of the Kurds lay out the case that the Kurdish Question looms as one of the largest threats to peace and stability in the Middle East. With the majority of Kurds living within its borders, no country faces this threat more squarely than Turkey, whose concept of a unified, cohesive nation-in which the existence of ethnic minorities is not acknowledged-makes the powder keg more difficult to manage than elsewhere. Separate sections examine the devel

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813108969
• ISBN13: 9780813108964
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ ABOUT KURDS IN ENGLISH!

Great book and very informative. I hope the author will write more books about the world's biggest stateless nation also in the future.

Kemalism, not the Kurds, needs resolving

Perhaps the most valuable lesson that can be gleamed from this collection of essays is that the resolution of the Kurdish problem will come only with Turkey's realization that it must reform the fundamental characteristic of its particular political basis - Kemalism. As Mark Muller writes, only by abandoning ethno-nationalism for nationalism, which strikes at the heart of Turkey's entire existence since 1920, can Turkey deal successfully with the Kurds. Discovering such a lesson is well worth reading this book. END