Blood and Belief - The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence

The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored by the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the world's political stage. More than half live in Turkey, where the Kurdish strugg

List of contents

From the Content:
1I. Ocalan, Kurds, and the PKK's Start
The Origins of the PKK, 1949--1976
Abdullah Ocalan, Leader, 1975--1980
The Flight to Survive, 1980--1982
On the Road to War, 1982--1984
II. The PKK Consolidates Power
Loyalty and Violence, 1985--1990
The Struggle to Succeed, 1985--1990
The Deluge, 1988--1991
III. PKK Militants Fight for Control
War in the Streets, 1991--1992
Fueling the War, 1992--1993
Mixing War and Politics, 1991--1993
Change in Fortunes, 1993--1997
IV. Ocalan's Capture and After
The Decline, 1995--19983
Searching for a New Way, 1995--1998
Ocalan, Caught by Surprise, 1998--19993
The PKK Saves Itself, 1999--2007.

About the author

Aliza Marcus is the author of Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence. She is formerly an international correspondent for The Boston Globe and lives in Washington, D.C. Marcus covered the PKK for more than eight years, first as a freelance reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, and later as a staff writer for Reuters, receiving a National Press Club Award for her reporting. She is also a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant for her work.

Summary

Presents the inside story of Kurdish guerrilla movement. This book combines reportage and scholarship to give an account of PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Product details

• Authors: Aliza Marcus
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2009
• EAN: 9780814795873
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-9587-3
• No. of pages: 349
• Weight: 466 g
• Series: New York University Press; New York University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Türkei, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Politischer Aktivismus