Cengiz Çandar

Turkey's Mission Impossible

War and Peace with the Kurds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a unique record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist nature of the Turkish state manifested in Erdöan's "New Turkey," Çandar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on Turkey and details account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781498587525
• ISBN-10: 1498587526
• Artikelnr.: 62476729

Autorenporträt

Cengiz Çandar is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies.He is a scholar and journalist, is the leading expert in Turkey on the Middle East, the main architect of the Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement as President Turgut Özal's advisor in the 1990s.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter1: Historical and Ideological Background
Chapter 2. Kurdish Uprisings
Chapter 3. The Longest Kurdish Insurgency
Chapter 4. Öcalan and the Birth and Evolution of the PKK
Chapter 5. Özal, Talabani, Öcalan
Chapter 6. New Century, New Prospects, New Initiatives
Chapter 7. Road to Oslo, Contacts, and Back Channels
Chapter 8. Oslo, Talking on Secrecy
Chapter 9. Erdöan's Dance with Öcalan: Peace Process in Public
Chapter 10. Elusive Peace, Not Talking Turkey
Chapter 11. Battlefield Syria
Chapter 12. Neighboring Quagmire
Chapter 13. A Coup for a New Turkey
Chapter 14. Deep State
Chapter 15. The Pedigree of Turkish Autocracy
Chapter 16. New Turkey: A Reincarnation