Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas
Murat Somer, "Return to Point Zero: The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas "
English | ISBN: 1438486715 | 2022 | 452 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1438486715 | 2022 | 452 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Analyzes Turkey's Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.
How did the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict arise? Why have Turks and Kurds failed for so long to solve it? How can they solve it today? How can social scientists better analyze this and other protracted conflicts and propose better prescriptions for sustainable peace? Return to Point Zero develops a novel framework for analyzing the historical-structural and contemporary causes of ethnic-national conflicts, highlighting an understudied dimension: politics. Murat Somer argues that intramajority group politics rather than majority-minority differences better explains ethnic-national conflicts. Hence, the political-ideological divisions among Turks are the key to understanding the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict; though it was nationalism that produced the Kurdish
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