Religion and Armed Conflict: Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
This article examines the effectiveness of religion as a solution to ethno-nationalist conflicts, drawing on the case of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan [PKK]) in Turkey. We utilize an original data set that contains data on Turkey's state-sponsored mosques between 1980...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-340 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Turkey
/ Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan
/ Kurds
/ Minority question
/ Armed conflict
/ Islam
/ State religion
/ Peace efforts
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBL Near East and North Africa ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Kurds
B Turkey B Religion B Peacemaking B armed conflict |
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| Summary: | This article examines the effectiveness of religion as a solution to ethno-nationalist conflicts, drawing on the case of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan [PKK]) in Turkey. We utilize an original data set that contains data on Turkey's state-sponsored mosques between 1980 and 2016 to test for the purported peacemaking potential of religion. Results from this data set, coupled with an alternative measure of the state's involvement in religion, show that increased Islamization has no discernible impact on lowering support for the ethno-nationalist Kurdish political parties or insurgency. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12652 |