ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the rise of the Worker's Party of Kurdistan (PKK) in the Turkish Kurdistan with a focus on people's interpretation of state and movements. PKK's organization and strategies differ from the Leftist movements, and state violence against Kurdish identity contributed to the growth of the PKK. More importantly here, in places such as Dersim where a consciousness of history and outsiderness channeled interpretations of Leftist movements, the PKK gathered support as the new medium for antistate resistance. The chapter analyzes state power in the form of exception against the outsiders by looking simultaneously at state policies and people's narratives. The narratives of different generations on violence help to understand state power in the form of exception and its effects on conceptions of outsiderness. The chapter also analyzes grandchildren generation's construction of outsiderness and subjectivity, revealing a politics of loss shaped by violence and the destruction of a cultural repertoire.
