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Informationen zum Autor Cengiz Gunes is the author of The Contemporary Kurdish National Movement in Turkey: From Protest to Resistance (London: Routledge, 2012). His main research interests are in identity and nationalism, peace and conflict studies and the international relations of the Middle East. Welat Zeydanlioglu is the coordinator of the Kurdish Studies Network and the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Kurdish Studies . He has published several articles on the Kurdish question, state violence as well as on the politics of nation-building and modern Turkish and Kurdish history. Zusammenfassung This book elaborates on the complexity of the Kurdish question and examines the subject matter from a number of innovative angles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Hamit Bozarslan Introduction: Turkey and the Kurds - Cengiz Gunes and Welat Zeydanlioglu 1 The Role of the Judicial System in the Politicide of the Kurdish Opposition– Derya Bayir 2 The Representation of Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Mainstream Turkish Media – Derya Erdem 3 Mobilizing the Kurds in Turkey: Newroz as a Myth – Delal Aydin 4 The State Sovereignty and the Politics of Fear: Ethnography of Political Violence and the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey – Ramazan Aras 5 Re-defining the Role of Women within the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey in the 1990s – Necla Acik 6 Taking to the Streets! Kurdish Collective Action in Turkey – Kariane Westrheim 7 Repression or Reform? An Analysis of AKP's Kurdish Language Policy – Welat Zeydanlioglu 8 Confederalism and Autonomy in Turkey: The Kurdistan Workers' Party and the Reinvention of Democracy- Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya and Joost Jongerden 9 The Impact of the EU on Minority Rights: The Kurds as a Case – Zelal B. Kizilkan-Kisacik 10 Music and Reconciliation in Turkey – Ozan E. Aksoy 11 Elimination or Integration of Pro-Kurdish Politics: Limits of the AKP's Democratic Initiative – Cuma Cicek 12 Political Reconciliation in Turkey: Challenges and Prospects – Cengiz Gunes ...
