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Gunes, Cengiz.

The Kurdish national movement in Turkey : from protest to resistance / Cengiz Gunes. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 237 p. ; 24 cm. - Exeter studies in ethno politics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-229) and index.

Deconstructing Kurdish identity and nationalism in academic discourses -- Understanding Kurdish identity and nationalism in Turkey -- The organic intellectuals and the re-emergence of Kurdish political activism in the 1960s -- The emergence of the Kurdish socialist movement -- The Kurdish national liberation discourse -- Becoming a Kurd: the national liberation war and mass mobilisation -- Dislocations and the PKK's turn to democracy -- Contesting democracy and pluralism: the pro-Kurdish political parties in Turkey -- Conclusion: democracy, pluralism and Kurdish subjectivity in (post)national Turkey.

ISBN: 9780415680479 (hbk.) 9780203180860 (ebK.)

LCCN: 2011023684

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kurds--Politics and government--Turkey--20th century.
Kurds--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
Nationalism--History--Turkey--20th century.
Government, Resistance to--History.--Turkey
Kurds--Government relations.--Turkey

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Kurdistan--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.

LC Class. No.: DS59.K86 / G855 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 320.5409566/7