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Turkey's Mission Impossible
War and Peace with the Kurds
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2020
Summary
This is a work of excavation of the modern history of Turkey, with the Kurdish question at its center, unearthed and exposed in Çandar’s captivating narrative.
The founding of a Turkish nation-state in Asia Minor brought with it the denial of the distinct Kurdish identity in its midst, giving birth to an intractable problem that led to intermittent Kurdish revolts and culminated in the enduring insurgency of the PKK. The Kurdish question is perceived as a mortal threat for the survival of Turkey. The author weaves a fascinating account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes. Providing a unique historical record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist—rather than Islamist—nature of the Turkish state rooted in the last decades of the Ottoman period and finally manifested in Erdoğan’s “New Turkey,” Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on the Turkey of today and tomorrow.
Turkey’s Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds combines scholarly research with the memoirs of a participant observer, richly revealing the author’s first-hand knowledge of developments acquired over a lifetime devoted to the resolution of perhaps the most complex problem of the Middle East.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8750-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8751-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
324
Product Type
Monograph
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List of Figures No access
Foreword No access
Notes on Spelling and Transliteration No access
Writing Turkey’s Mission Impossible No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
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Conclusion No access Pages 289 - 294
Acknowledgments No access Pages 295 - 298
Timeline—Late Ottoman andModern History of Turkey No access Pages 299 - 306
