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Turkish Paramilitarism in Northern Kurdistan

State Violence in the 1990s

Beschreibung

Focuses on relations between paramilitary groups and the Turkish state during the armed conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) in the 1990s.

Autor

Ayhan Işık is an interdisciplinary political historian specialising in 20th and 21st-century political violence, conflict, peace studies and Kurdish Studies. He completed his PhD in the Department of History-Political History at Utrecht University, focusing on Turkish Paramilitarism and perpetrators' violence in the 1990s. His postdoctoral research was at Centre de Recherche Mondes Modernes et Contemporains, Université libre de Bruxelles and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a co-founder and editorial board member of the journal Toplum ve Kuram (Theory and Society: Kurdish Studies). His articles have been featured in numerous journals (including Southeast European and Black Sea Studies and Kurdish Studies). His work has also been published in the edited collection Kurds in Turkey: Ethnographies of Heterogeneous Experiences (Lexington Books, 2019). Işık also a co-editor of Kurds and the Republic, including 100 articles edited volume. Turkish Paramilitarism in Northern Kurdistan will be his first monograph.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399505994
• ISBN-10: 1399505998
• Artikelnr.: 73929422