An Alternative to Nationalism: The Kurdish Movement in Turkey
This paper will analyse the Kurdish movement’s embracement of democratic confederalist ideology from a security perspective. The purpose of this study is to understand why the Kurdish movement turned from ethno-nationalism to an anti-statist ideology. I argue that the Kurdish movement embraced democ...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Lingue e Scienze dell’Educazione
2018
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Occhialì
Year: 2018, Volume: 3, Pages: 69-84 |
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PKK
B Nationalism B Asset-backed financing B Nationalismo B Kurdish Question B Questione curda B Securitizzazione |
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| Summary: | This paper will analyse the Kurdish movement’s embracement of democratic confederalist ideology from a security perspective. The purpose of this study is to understand why the Kurdish movement turned from ethno-nationalism to an anti-statist ideology. I argue that the Kurdish movement embraced democratic confederalism in a bid to facilitate the de-securitization of the Kurdish issue. The Kurdish movement in Turkey was born as a nationalist, anti-colonialist independentist movement. The Turkish Government responded to the Kurdish issue by securitizing it and hence, considered only military responses to address its long-standing minority issue. However, in the 2000s, the Kurdish movement embraced democratic confederalism, an ideology that rejects nationalism and separatism, in favour of local self- government within existing state borders. Through this attempt to relocate the Kurdish issue from the security sphere to the ordinary political sphere, the Kurdish movement hoped to achieve a political settlement between the Turkish government and the Kurds. |
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| ISSN: | 2532-6740 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Occhialì
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