TY - BOOK AU - Gurbuz, Mustafa AB - This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the existence of Kurds, calling them "mountain Turks," and Kurdish populated cities were ruled under martial law. Kurdish politics in Turkey was dominated by a revolutionary movement, the PKK, which engaged in violent clashes with the state. Less than a decade later, the PKK's rebellion had all but ended, and Kurdish political and civic movements of numerous stripes had emerged. The Turkish state even introduced an official Kurdish-language TV channel. How did this rapid change occur? Gürbüz proposes that contending social movements has transformed the politics of the region, ushering in an era of post-conflict political and cultural competition. DO - 10.5117/9789089648785 ID - OAPEN ID: 623376 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945663081 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31888 KW - ethnic conflict KW - turkey KW - kurds KW - social movements KW - conflict resolution L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31888/1/623376.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31888/1/623376.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31888/1/623376.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31888/1/623376.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33997 PB - Amsterdam University Press PY - 2016 SN - 9789089648785 TI - Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey. Transforming Ethnic Conflictnull ER -