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      A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan

      Turkey's Kurds

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      Turkey's Kurds book

      A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan
      ByAli Kemal Özcan
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2005
      eBook Published 27 September 2005
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203019597
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203019597
      Subjects Politics & International Relations
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      Özcan, A.K. (2005). Turkey's Kurds: A Theoretical Analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203019597

      ABSTRACT

      The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety of issues are addressed including:

      * the views and philosophy of Abdullah Ocalan
      * the successes and failures of the PKK in bringing about the Kurdish opposition in Turkey
      * the role of PKK's philosophy of recruitment, organizational diligence, use of arms and other contextual factors in Kurdish resistance
      * factors involved in the development of the nationalism of the Kurds in Turkey.

      The text also reappraises the Kurdish movement in Turkey and presents insights into the nature of Kurdish social structure, thinking, and the particularities of the Kurdish ethnic distinctness.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |19 pages

      Introduction

      chapter |43 pages

      Nationalism

      Distilling the Cultural and the Political

      chapter |21 pages

      The seeds of Turkey's Kurdish Question

      chapter |14 pages

      Enter the PKK

      chapter |40 pages

      The Discourse and Objectives of the PKK

      chapter |54 pages

      Sources of Motivations

      The Organization and the Individual

      chapter |42 pages

      The Rise and Fall of the PKK

      Questions, Confrontations and the Impasse

      chapter |9 pages

      Conclusion

      chapter |11 pages

      Epilogue

      Apparent Obscurity
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