Read more
Informationen zum Autor Veli Yadirgi is a Research Associate and a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has previously worked as a political correspondent and editor in a variety of European media companies, and is a member of the London Middle East Institute and the Centre for Ottoman Studies, and Neoliberalism, Globalisation and States (all at SOAS). Klappentext An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey's Kurdish question. Zusammenfassung This book examines the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey! and the links between socioeconomic development and the Kurdish question in the context of the wider region. It is for academics studying Middle East history and politics! or economic history! and also journalists or policy-makers focused on the Kurdish question. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Kurds, the Kurdish question in Turkey and economic development in ESA: an exploration of the central theoretical debates and outline of the methodological resources; 2. The formation of Ottoman Kurdistan: social, economic and political developments in Ottoman Kurdistan before the nineteenth century (1514-1799); 3. The transformation of Ottoman Kurdistan: underdevelopment in Ottoman Kurdistan in the age of centralisation, Westernisation and crisis (1800-1914); 4. The deformation of Ottoman Kurdistan and bordering regions: dedevelopment in ESA from the First World War until the 1980 Coup (1914-80); 5. Turkey's Kurdish question in the era of neoliberalism: from the 1980 coup to the AKP's Kurdish overture (1980-2010s); 6. Conclusion.
