TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,Paul J.
TI  - Primitive rebels or revolutionary modernizers?: the Kurdish national movement in Turkey 
SN  - 1856498212
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books, 
KW  - Partiya Karkeren̂ Kurdistane.̂
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Kurds
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - 1. The Kurds as Primitive Rebels -- 2. Who are the Kurds? -- 3. Kurdish Religious and Ethnic Divisions -- 4. The Development of the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey: 1879-1965 -- 5. The Political Economy of Turkish Kurdistan -- 6. The Kurdish National Movement and the Turkish Left: 1965-99 -- 7. From Serihildan to Europe -- 8. Conclusion: Leadership in the Kurdish National Movement Today -- App. 1. PKK'People's Court': 27 June 1992 Mahsum Korkmaz Akademisi -- App. 2. PKK Chronology
N2  - 'This book's focus is a critical examination of the Kurdish nationalist movement - especially the largest and most powerful grouping, the PKK. Its evolution is traced. Initially reliant on armed struggle, the PKK had in fact, the author shows, made significant strides towards becoming a mainstream mass political movement before Ocalan's arrest.''Original interviews with Ocalan, his rival Kurdish nationalist leaders and ordinary PKK guerillas are woven into the text. They make possible an understanding of Abdullah Ocalan's personality as well as revealing much about leadership in contemporary Kurdish nationalism. Of particular interest also is the author's revisionist discussion of the Alevi Kurds.'--Jacket
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