Turkey Under the AKP
The Kurdish Question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6286404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ragan Updegraff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-128 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2012.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2108638424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Turkish state policy toward the Kurds, the Republic of Turkey’s largest ethnic minority, has evolved from denial and mandatory assimilation to cultural recognition to acknowledgement of the Kurds’ contested status as a political problem demanding political solutions. The election of 36 Kurdish-nationalist lawmakers, most of whom now sit in parliament as representatives of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), bolsters the salience of Kurdish nationalism and the need to accommodate it through normal politics rather than attempt to suppress it through violence. How state authorities and politicians handle the Kurdish question will continue to say much about both the success of Turkey’s efforts at democratic consolidation and, more generally, the potential for democracy to manage problems involving self-conscious and mobilized national minorities dwelling within the borders of strong and highly centralized nation-states
Acknowledgement · Consolidation (business · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnic nationalism · Nationalism · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Law · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |