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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Why study discourse on the Kurdish question?
• Political language and the study of the Kurdish question
• Why post
• Cold War conflicts aren't ìnternal' anymore: state sovereignty, parliaments and secession
• Organization of the book
• 1. transnational Kant and the search for a Diyarbakir social contract: emancipation discourses in the European Parliament and US Congress
• Human rights: or, how to shoot yourself in the head with an infantry rifle
• Was ̀Turkish democracy' an oxymoron in the 1990s?
• Scorched earth: excessive force and security misconduct criticisms
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 2. Hobbes in Washington and Brussels: defining Kurdish chaos and Turkish order
• How power thinks: deconstructing the logic of states in conflict
• European priorities of Turkish statecraft: strategic utility and secularism
• US Congress: betwixt selling cluster bombs and filing war crimes case against Turkey
• Transnational Locke meets transnational Hobbes: self-critique in the European Parliament and US Congress
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 3. Schrodinger's Kurd: can the Kurdish question both exist and not exist in Turkey?
• Defining the Kurdish question in Turkish political discourse

• Human rights
• Democracy and democratization
• Excessive force and disproportionate use of weaponry
• Security and terrorism
• Economic
• developmental discourses
• Legalistic discourses
• Autonomy
• ethnicity
• culturalism
• Self-criticism in the TGNA
• Foreign Dark Powers: how Turkey understood the international relations of the Kurdish question
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 4. Concluding comparative analysis
• Notes
• Epilogue: Justice of Development Party (AKP) discourse on the Kurdish question
• Welfare Party and Erdogan's political formation on the Kurdish question
• Erdogan in power: AKP's Kurdish discourse, 2002
• 2009
• After 2009: kurdish opening, Arab spring and the Syrian civil war
• Notes.

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Author/Creator:

Ünver, H. Akin , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Turkey's Kurdish question: discourse and politics since 1990 [by Ünver, H.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Turkey's Kurdish question [by Ünver, H.A.] (Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015 — ISBN 9781138858565; LCCN 2014048379)

Related Series:

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics; [volume] 75

Subjects:

Kurds — Government policy — Turkey

Kurds — Turkey — Social conditions

Kurds — Civil rights — Turkey

Kurds — Turkey — Politics and government

Discourse analysis — Political aspects

Political culture — Turkey

Political culture — Europe

Political culture — United States

Turkey — Politics and government — 1980-

Turkey — Ethnic relations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 1, 2015).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DR435.K87 U68 2015

ISBNs:

9781315717883
1315717883
9781317511335
1317511336
9781138858565 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

910237330

Other Control Numbers:

999246 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12454246