ABSTRACT
Introduction In this chapter, I will investigate the reasons of the KCK for the change and transformation of the struggle. I will look at the Kurdish civil and legal activism in Turkey and the political activities that have been pursued in a different way since the KCK has been established. For that, I will particularly examine activisms of the newly established KCK as a multi-dimensional entity that has provided new and different characters for the Kurdish national struggle in Turkey. Through the focus on the cultural and social activism of the KCK within the Kurdish part of Turkey, the policy of the movement from political to social, from nation state to democratic nation building will be investigated. In order to make the picture of Kurdish national movement flawless, there must be an attempt to envisage the whole framework of the movement. The character and functions of the main game players of the movement need to be illustrated. For that, the changes of the political and social contexts in Turkey and in the broader regional states can be widely seen on the one hand, alongside the transformations of the main actor of the Kurdish national movement from a one-dimensional ‘struggle’ to a broader and multidimensional ‘struggle’ on the other hand (Touraine, 1981). Nonetheless, the types of struggle and demands have been changed from Kurdish ultra-nationalist and political demands to more societal, democratic and multi-ethnic and multicultural demands.
