Primitive Rebels Or Revolutionary Modernizers: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in TurkeyProtests worldwide followed the capture and trial of the Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Öcalan in 1999. Millions of people are now aware of the long fight by Öcalan's PKK guerillas in Turkey. But where does the PKK come from? What are its aims? Who supports it? What will its future be without Öcalan to guide it? And, most important of all, is there now a real prospect for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey and a democratic future that recognises the cultural plurality of the country? |
Contents
The Kurds as Primitive Rebels | 1 |
Who are the Kurds? | 14 |
Kurdish Religious and Ethnic Divisions 30 | 30 |
The Development of the Kurdish National | 54 |
Young Turk rebellion 63 The Treaty of Sèvres | 70 |
The Ararat rising 76 The Dersim rebellion | 79 |
The Political Economy of Turkish Kurdistan | 93 |
The Kurdish National Movement and the Turkish | 129 |
Turkey 130 The Kurdish reawakening 131 The Partiya | 136 |