Turkey's Kurdish Question

by Graham E. Fuller, Henri J. Barkey, Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict

The Kurds, one of the oldest ethnic groups in the Middle East, are reasserting their identity-politically and through violence. Turkey's essentially democratic structure and civil society-ideal tools for coping with and incorporating minority challenge-have so far been suspended on this issue, which the government is treating almost exclusively as a security problem to be dealt with by force. This study explores the roots, dimensions, character, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847685535
• ISBN13: 9780847685530
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"