Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey by White, Paul J.

Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781856498227)

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Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey by White, Paul J.

Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers

$47.95
Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey by White, Paul J.

Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers

$47.95
Format: Paperback
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Protests worldwide followed the capture and trial of the Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah calan in 1999. Millions of people are now aware of the long fight by calan's PKK guerillas in Turkey. But where does the PKK come from? What are its aims? Who supports it? What will its future be without calan to guide it? And, most important of all, is there now a real prospect for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey and a democratic future that recognises the cultural plurality of the country?

This timely book seeks answers to these questions and provides an informative, up-to-date and readable account of the Kurdish reality in Turkey today.

Its focus is a critical examination of the Kurdish nationalist movement -- especially the largest and most powerful grouping, the PKK. Its evolution is traced. Initially reliant on armed struggle, the PKK had in fact, the author shows, made significant strides towards becoming a mainstream mass political movement before calan's arrest.

Original interviews with Icalan, his rival Kurdish nationalist leaders and ordinary PKK guerillas are woven into the text. They make possible an understanding of Abdullah calan's personality as well as revealing much about leadership in contemporary Kurdish nationalism. Of particular interest also is the author's revisionist discussion of the Alevi Kurds.

Author: Paul J. White
ISBN-10: 1856498220
ISBN-13: 9781856498227
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.52w x 0.58d

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Choice 07/01/2001 pg. 2019
By Paul J. White
By Paul J. White
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Dr Paul J White teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Deakin University. A Kurdish Studies specialist, he has contributed numerous papers and articles to learned journals, particularly on the Kurdish Question. He is the Editor (with William S. Logan) of Remaking the Middle East (1997). He is a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC.
Dr Paul J White teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Deakin University. A Kurdish Studies specialist, he has contributed numerous papers and articles to learned journals, particularly on the Kurdish Question. He is the Editor (with William S. Logan) of Remaking the Middle East (1997). He is a member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and serves on the Board of Directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC.

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