Abstract
This chapter focuses on the Kurdish conflict in Turkey and discusses the key events and developments that have shaped its trajectory. Firstly, it provides the historical overview of the conflict and sets out the emergence and evolution of contemporary Kurdish national movement in Turkey since 1960s. Secondly, it provides an account of the positive developments that has transformed the conflict and resulted in an improvement in Kurdish rights in Turkey. While the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s have witnessed significantly less violence in the conflict, the failure to bring about a resolution has ended the progress made in the transformation of the conflict since the summer of 2015. Consequently, in the final section, the chapter provides an account of the reasons behind the recent acceleration of violence and assesses the future prospects for the Kurds in Turkey.
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Gunes, C. (2019). Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict: The Sudden Reversal of Gradual Progress. In: The Kurds in a New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00539-9_3
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