PKK

Coming Down from the Mountains

AvDoctor Paul White

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Beskrivning

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is infamous for its violence. The struggle it has waged for Kurdish independence in southeastern Turkey has cost in excess of 40,000 lives since 1984. A less-known fact, however, is that the PKK now embraces a non-violent end to the conflict, with its leader Abdullah Öcalan having ordered a ceasefire and engaging in a negotiated peace with the Ankara government. Whether these tentative attempts at peacemaking mean an end to the bloodshed remains to be seen, but either way the ramifications for Turkey and the wider region are potentially huge.Charting the ideological evolution of the PKK, as well as its origins, aims and structure, Paul White provides the only authoritative and up-to-date analysis of one of the most important non-state political players in the contemporary Middle East.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:218
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781783600397
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Serie:Rebels

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Dr Paul White works as an independent consultant in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has taught Middle East Politics courses at Deakin University in Melbourne; at Macquarie University in Sydney; and at the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is the author of Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey (Zed Books, 2000). He was a member of the editorial board of the 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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At this most dramatic moment in the history of the Kurdish people, Paul White's timely book offers an indispensable guide to the PKK's organizational and ideological evolution, its years of bitter struggle with the Turkish state, and the prospects for a peaceful outcome.

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Introduction1. 'The Time of Revolution Has Started'2. PKK Origins and Ideological Formation3. Early Years of Struggle4. From Ceasefire to All-Out War5. The Move Towards Peace6. Democratic Confedaralism and the PKK's Feminist Transformation7. Coming Down from the Mountains