Contents:
A. Ethnic
identity and ethnic diversity
1. The ethnic identity of the Kurds
2. Diversity and division among the Kurds
3. Kurds, Turks and the Alevi revival in Turkey
B. State-induced
nation-building, Kurdish ethno-nationalism, and the modalities of its suppression
4. Kurdish society and the modern state: ethnic nationalism versus nation-building
5. Genocide in Kurdistan? The suppression of the Dersim rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) and
the chemical war against the Iraqi Kurds (1988)
6. Genocide of Kurds
C. Kurdish
uprisings in Iran: tribal, religious, ethno-national and inter-state factors
7. Kurdish tribes and the state in Iran: The case of Simko’s revolt
8. Nationalismus und religiöser Konflikt: Der kurdische Widerstand im Iran
9a. The Kurds between Iran and Iraq
9b. Major Kurdish organizations in Iran and Iraq
D. The Kurdish
movement in Turkey since 1960
10. The Kurds in Turkey
11. Between guerrilla war and political murder: The Workers’ Party of Kurdistan
12. Turkey and the Kurds in the early 1990s: Guerrilla, Counter-insurgency, and Emerging
Civil Society.
13. Turkey, Europe and the Kurds after the capture of Abdullah Öcalan
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