Author : Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Kurds
ISBN : 9783931885182
Verklaringen afgelegd door de leider van de Koerdische Arbeiderspartij PKK tijdens zijn hoogverraadsproces in Imrali, Turkije, 1999.
Author : Miley Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1551646722
"e;Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts... I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."e;-From a letter by Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment, February 10, 1985A revolutionary imprisoned on an island fortress may hold the key to peace in the Middle East. The leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah calan, is considered by many to be the "e;Kurdish Mandela"e;, courageously issuing proposals for peace even from his prison cell. His ideas on democracy, women's liberation, and freedom have even inspired the remarkable Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. As Turkey descended into tyranny and Syria exploded in civil war, a peace delegation of European politicians, academics, and journalists, led by Nelson Mandela's lawyer and Supreme Court judge Essa Moosa, repeatedly attempted to go to meet with calan at his prison on Imrali Island. Your Freedom and Mine tells the story of these momentous delegations. The book opens with an informative historical overview of the Kurdish Question, leading up until the optimistic opening-and eventual bitter failure-of the peace process in Turkey. It includes official documents and reports from the Imrali Delegations in Istanbul and Diyarbakir/Amed, which involved in-depth interviews with Kurdish and Turkish politicians, media, and civil society regarding the degenerating political and human rights situation. The final section is a collection of testimonials from delegation participants. Your Freedom and Mine offers crucial insight into the dramatic history and current reality of the Kurdish struggle for recognition and peace in Turkey.
Author : KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Information Department
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Iraq
ISBN :
Author : Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Kurds
ISBN : 9783941012462
Author : Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780745399768
The essential introduction to the writings of Abdullah Öcalan, founder of Democratic Confederalism
Author :
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category :
ISBN : 9385714082
The book examines several models which have been advocated for a workable and acceptable solution to the Kurdish problem which would be absolutely necessary for stability in the West Asian region. The book evaluates how the more than two-decade long experience of Kurdish self-rule in a democratic framework in Iraqi Kurdistan affects the debate over the other Kurdish regions in West Asia. With Turkey’s European Union accession process contributing to the opening of the political space to ethno-nationalism, there is a need for a non-military solution to the Kurdish issue. The book analyses the role of Kurdish diaspora which plays a significant part in placing the Kurdish question on the European political agenda. It also examines the role of the Kurds in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the changing geopolitics in the region. Now, the Kurds maintain the strongest platform in battling against the ISIS terrorists.
Author : Iraq. Wizarat al-Thakafah wa-al-Irshad
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 197?
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Fevzi Bilgin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0739184032
This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have demanded autonomy and recognition since the post-World I wave of self-governance in the region, and their nationalist claims have further intensified since the end of the Cold War. The present volume first describes the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, its genesis during the late nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire, and its legacy into the new Turkish republic. Second, the volume takes up the violent legacy of Kurdish nationalism and analyzes the conflict through the actions of the PKK, the militant pro-Kurdish organization which grew to be the most important actor in the process. Third, the volume deals with the international dimensions of the Kurdish question, as manifested in Turkey’s evolving relationships with Syria, Iraq, and Iran, the issue regarding the status of the Kurdish minorities in these countries, and the debate over the Kurdish problem in Western capitals.
Author : Cuma Çiçek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786721090
In fact, Kurds in Turkey have many diverse political and ideological orientations. Focusing on the elites of these informal groups - national, religious and economic - Cuma Cicek analyses the consequences of the divisions and subsequent prospects of consensus building. Using an innovative theoretical framework founded on constructivism, the 'three 'I's' model and various strands of sociology, Cicek considers the dynamics that affect the Kurds in Turkey across issues as diverse as the central state, geopolitics, nationalism, Europeanisation and globalisation. In so doing, he examines the consensus-building process of 1999-2015 and presents the possible route to a unified Kurdish political state.Cicek's in-depth and meticulously researched work adds an indispensable layer of nuance to our conception of the Kurdish community. This is an important book for students or researchers with an interest in the history and present of the Kurds and their future in Turkey and across the Middle East.
Author : Jerrold M. Post
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230608590
In contrast to the widely held assumption that terrorists as crazed fanatics, Jerrold Post demonstrates they are psychologically "normal" and that "hatred has been bred in the bone". He reveals the powerful motivations that drive these ordinary people to such extraordinary evil by exploring the different types of terrorists, from national-separatists like the Irish Republican Army to social revolutionary terrorists like the Shining Path, as well as religious extremists like al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo. In The Mind of the Terrorist, Post uses his expertise to explain how the terrorist mind works and how this information can help us to combat terrorism more effectively.
