Nikos Christofis is an associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish.

• Introduction The Kurds in Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Domestic and International Implications Nikos Christofis Part I. Accelerating Turkey’s Transition 1. Conquering the State, Subordinating Society: A Kurdish Perspective on the Development of AKP Authoritarianism in Turkey Joost Jongerden 2. The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey: The Risks of Peace and Surrender Seevan Saeed 3. Neither Peace nor Resolution: Friends and Foes during Oslo and İmralı talks 2005–2015 Kumru F. Toktamış Part II. Kurdish Gender Perspectives 4.Clashes, Collaborations and Convergences: Evolving Relations of Turkish and Kurdish Women’s Rights Activist Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas 5. One State, One Nation, One Flag – One Gender? HDP as a challenger of the Turkish nation state and its gendered perspectives Rosa Burç Part III. State Discourse and Counter-Hegemonic Politics 6. Left-wing Populism in Turkey: The Case of HDP Ömer Tekdemir 7. ‘My Muslim Kurdish Brother’: Colonial Rule and Islamist Governmentality in the Kurdish Region of Turkey Mehmet M. Kurt 8. Neo-colonial Geographies of Occupation: A Portrait of Diyarbakir Hazal Dölek 9. Dersim 1937–38: Shifts and continuities in the state discourse and reasoning under Kemalism and Erdoğanism Pınar Dinç Part IV. International Implications 10. The geopolitics of Turkey’s Kurdish question Can Cemgil 11. Turkey in Syria: A Neo-Ottomanist or a Nationalist Moment for Erdoğan? Cengiz Çandar 12. Autonomous Administration in the Shadow of Turkish Aggression: De-facto (Kurdish) Autonomy in Northern Syria and the Turkish Invasions of Afrîn and Northeastern Syria in 2018–2019 Thomas Schmidinger Afterword Michael M. Gunter

Nikos Christofis is an associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish.

• Introduction The Kurds in Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Domestic and International Implications Nikos Christofis Part I. Accelerating Turkey’s Transition 1. Conquering the State, Subordinating Society: A Kurdish Perspective on the Development of AKP Authoritarianism in Turkey Joost Jongerden 2. The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey: The Risks of Peace and Surrender Seevan Saeed 3. Neither Peace nor Resolution: Friends and Foes during Oslo and İmralı talks 2005–2015 Kumru F. Toktamış Part II. Kurdish Gender Perspectives 4.Clashes, Collaborations and Convergences: Evolving Relations of Turkish and Kurdish Women’s Rights Activist Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas 5. One State, One Nation, One Flag – One Gender? HDP as a challenger of the Turkish nation state and its gendered perspectives Rosa Burç Part III. State Discourse and Counter-Hegemonic Politics 6. Left-wing Populism in Turkey: The Case of HDP Ömer Tekdemir 7. ‘My Muslim Kurdish Brother’: Colonial Rule and Islamist Governmentality in the Kurdish Region of Turkey Mehmet M. Kurt 8. Neo-colonial Geographies of Occupation: A Portrait of Diyarbakir Hazal Dölek 9. Dersim 1937–38: Shifts and continuities in the state discourse and reasoning under Kemalism and Erdoğanism Pınar Dinç Part IV. International Implications 10. The geopolitics of Turkey’s Kurdish question Can Cemgil 11. Turkey in Syria: A Neo-Ottomanist or a Nationalist Moment for Erdoğan? Cengiz Çandar 12. Autonomous Administration in the Shadow of Turkish Aggression: De-facto (Kurdish) Autonomy in Northern Syria and the Turkish Invasions of Afrîn and Northeastern Syria in 2018–2019 Thomas Schmidinger Afterword Michael M. Gunter

Nikos Christofis is an associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish.

• Introduction The Kurds in Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey: Domestic and International Implications Nikos Christofis Part I. Accelerating Turkey’s Transition 1. Conquering the State, Subordinating Society: A Kurdish Perspective on the Development of AKP Authoritarianism in Turkey Joost Jongerden 2. The Kurdish Struggle in Turkey: The Risks of Peace and Surrender Seevan Saeed 3. Neither Peace nor Resolution: Friends and Foes during Oslo and İmralı talks 2005–2015 Kumru F. Toktamış Part II. Kurdish Gender Perspectives 4.Clashes, Collaborations and Convergences: Evolving Relations of Turkish and Kurdish Women’s Rights Activist Nadje Al-Ali and Latif Tas 5. One State, One Nation, One Flag – One Gender? HDP as a challenger of the Turkish nation state and its gendered perspectives Rosa Burç Part III. State Discourse and Counter-Hegemonic Politics 6. Left-wing Populism in Turkey: The Case of HDP Ömer Tekdemir 7. ‘My Muslim Kurdish Brother’: Colonial Rule and Islamist Governmentality in the Kurdish Region of Turkey Mehmet M. Kurt 8. Neo-colonial Geographies of Occupation: A Portrait of Diyarbakir Hazal Dölek 9. Dersim 1937–38: Shifts and continuities in the state discourse and reasoning under Kemalism and Erdoğanism Pınar Dinç Part IV. International Implications 10. The geopolitics of Turkey’s Kurdish question Can Cemgil 11. Turkey in Syria: A Neo-Ottomanist or a Nationalist Moment for Erdoğan? Cengiz Çandar 12. Autonomous Administration in the Shadow of Turkish Aggression: De-facto (Kurdish) Autonomy in Northern Syria and the Turkish Invasions of Afrîn and Northeastern Syria in 2018–2019 Thomas Schmidinger Afterword Michael M. Gunter