Kurdish nationalists, Turkey's left and Kurdistan revolutionaries: a comparative approach to studying the PKK and dissident politics in Turkey

This paper aims to develop the literature on the PKK, employing a comparative approach to discuss the emergence of the party against the background of dissident politics in Turkey during the 1970s. Distinguishing between two political groupings, referred to as U+2018Kurdish nationalistU+2019 and (TurkeyU+2019s) U+2018revolutionary leftU+2019, We will argue that rather than originating from the Kurdish nationalists (as might be assumed), the PKK actually developed from the revolutionary left, to which it continues to remain close

Jaar van publicatie:2010