Kurdish question (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Demokrat Parti iktidarında Kürt Meselesi, 2021 (title translates as: The Kurdish question when the Demokrat Parti was in power) (OCoLC)1299255997

Riamei, Lungthuiyang. The Kurdish question : identity, representation, and struggle for self-determination, 2015. (OCoLC)919082895

Kirişci, Kemal. The Kurdish question and Turkey, 1997. (OCoLC)36681655

Rabar, R. What is the Kurdish question?, via Opendemocracy website, Jan. 12, 2023 (the Kurdish question is a term widely used in reference to the fact that Kurdish people do not have a homeland; Kurdistan is divided into four regions, including parts of Iran, North-eastern Syria, South-eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq where Kurds live; the Kurdish population exceeds 40 million, and the spoken language is Kurdish, which consists of different dialects, similar to the different Persian dialects)

Yeğen, M. Erdoğan and the Turkish opposition revisit the Kurdish question, 2022, via Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik website, viewed Jan. 12, 2023 (Not long ago, the Kurdish question (KQ) topped the agenda of Turkish politics; thanks mainly to what was called the Resolution Process between 2009 and 2015, there was a tense but lively political and public discussion on this colossal problem that the Turk­ish republic has long been tackling with since its foundation)

Yilmaz, A. The changing dynamics of the Kurdish question, 2018, via Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik website, viewed Jan. 12, 2023 (The Kurds in the Middle East have become significant political and military actors in the context of the fight against IS. One of the most important consequences of this situation has been the transformation of the Kurdish Question. Frustrated with the largely fruitless efforts to achieve equal rights and equal political footing in the coun­tries where they reside, Kurdish parties have tended to change their perceptions and strategies. There is a remarkable shift under way: from the fight for "justice, freedom and equality inside a given nation state" to the "defence of Kurdistan" as a political ter­ritory. Therefore, a fragmented approach towards the Kurdish Question as a domes­tic issue of national concern is not realistic anymore; Traditionally, international actors treated the Kurdish Question as a domestic issue of the states in the region where the Kurdish people reside, namely Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. ... Drawing a sharp distinction between domestic and foreign policies, the Kurdish Question remained contained within national boundaries and was re­garded only as a security issue of the indi­vidual nation-states. As a result, the Kurds found themselves socially, economically, and culturally dis­connected from one another)

Ergil, D. The Kurdish question in Turkey, in Journal of democracy, July 2000, viewed online, Jan. 12, 2023 (One of the greatest obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Turkey has been the country's treatment of its Kurdish citizens; although Kurdish is the mother tongue of as many as one in five inhabitants of Turkey, the government prohibits the teaching of Kurdish in schools and the broadcasting of Kurdish radio and television programs; these restrictions attest to a continuing refusal on the part of the Turkish state to recognize the cultural identity of its Kurdish citizens, a policy that has generated widespread discontent among the country's Kurds; How it handles the Kurdish question will ultimately determine whether Turkey stagnates in semiauthoritarianism--perhaps finally losing even those elements of democracy that it still possesses--or becomes a stable liberal democracy)

The Kurdish question revisited, via Hurst website, Jan. 12, 2023 (The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years; in Turkey, where the Kurdish question is an issue of national significance, and in Iraq, where the gains made by the Kurdistan Regional Government have allowed it to impose its authority, moves are afoot to solve 'the Kurdish Question' once and for all; in Syria, where the Kurds have borne the brunt of the Islamic State's onslaught as they defended their three self-declared cantons of Afrin, Kobane, and Cezire, and in Iran, where they struggle to express their cultural distinctiveness and suffer disproportionately at the hands of the Islamic Republic's security and intelligence services, the picture is less positive; yet the situations in both countries remain in flux, affected by developments in Iraq and Turkey in a manner that suggests we may have to revise the notion of the Kurds being forever divided by the boundaries of the Middle East and subsumed into the state projects of other nations)

The Kurdish question, 2009: p. 1 (The Kurdish question has dogged Iraq and its neighbors since they were created at the end of the First World War. ... When the Ottoman Empire was carved into its successor states, ethnic Kurds were deeply disappointed. The region they inhabited was divided among Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the Soviet Union (now Armenia and Azerbaijan). The Kurds have rebelled against their various governments numerous times since, seeking autonomy, independence and, ultimately, the creation of a unified state of Kurdistan. ... It is in Turkey and Iraq that the Kurdish question burns most intensely) p. 4 (The Kurds have struggled for independence for nearly a century; The Kurdish question involves Iran, Syria and Turkey as well as Iraq) (OCoLC)458594725

Wikipedia, Jan. 12, 2023: Kurdistan (Kurdistan or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges. Kurdistan generally comprises the following four regions: southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan)) Kurdish nationalism (redirected from Kurdish Question; Kurdish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey)

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