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Times of ‘Troubles’

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The State and Kurds in Turkey

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Not unlike the Ottoman state, the Republican state in Turkey, too, has regarded the Kurds as an integral part of the population and, in normal times, both of those states adopted friendly policies towards them. These states never expected the Kurds to revolt. On the eve of the Shaikh Said rebellion in 1925, initially Ankara did not pay much attention to the telegrams from the civil servants on the ground.1 Consequently, when that rebellion eventually did erupt and quickly spread, Ankara was taken by surprise.2

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    Metin Heper (Professor of Politics)

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Heper, M. (2007). Times of ‘Troubles’. In: The State and Kurds in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593602_7

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