ABOUT THE BOOK
Protests
worldwide followed the capture and trial of the Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan
in 1999. Millions of people are now aware of the long fight by his PKK guerillas in
Turkey. But where does the PKK come from? What are its aims? Who supports it? What will
its future be without Ocalan to guide it? And, most important of all, is there now a real
prospect for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey? This critical
examination of the Kurdish nationalist movement traces the PKK's evolution and its moves
towards becoming a mainstream mass political movement. The author reveals Ocalan's
personality and much about contemporary Kurdish leadership, and makes clear the
implications for the future of Kurdish nationalism generally.
'The best
scholarly analysis yet written on the PKK.' - Professor Robert Olson, University of
Kentucky
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Dr Paul J White
is a Kurdish Studies specialist and teaches Middle Eastern Studies at Deakin University,
Australia. He is the co-editor of Remaking the Middle East (Berg, 1997).
CONTENTS
Preface
1. The Kurds as
Primitive Rebels
State-Building and the Rise of National Consciousness
The Politics of Ethnic Identity
Economic Modernization, Civil Society, Democratization and Citizenship
Weber's "charismatic authority"
Leadership Types
2: Who are the
Kurds?
Origins of the Kurds
Defining the Kurds
Kurdish Tribalism
The Transition to a Market Economy
A Launching Pad for Democratization?
3: Kurdish
Religious and Ethnic Divisions
Sunni Islam
Sufi Tarikats
The Nurcu Movement
Fazilet Partisi
The 'Alevi Kurds'
Dailam and the Dailamites
Kurds, Kizilbash and Zazas
4: The
Development of the Kurdish National Movement in Turkey: 1879- 1965
The Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Legitimacy
Fragmentation of the Millets
Kurdish National Movement Emerges
The Sheikh Ubaydallah Rebellions
Young Turk Rebellion
The Treaty of Sevres
The Kockiri Rebellion
Sheikh Said Rebellion
The Ararat Rising
The Dersim Rebellion
Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers?
5: The Political
Economy of Turkish Kurdistan
Asiatic and Feudal Modes of Production
Nomadic Livestock-Raising
Growth of Kurdish Land Ownership
Industrial Development
Economic Liberalization and its Effects on Turkish Kurdistan
GAP - The Southern Anatolia Project
Devletcilik and Stunted Industry
A Kurdish Proletariat in Turkish Kurdistan?
Migration and Immigration
Kurds and Economic Modernization
6: The Kurdish
National Movement and the Turkish Left: 1965-1999
Introduction
The 1960s Political Resurgence in Turkey
The Kurdish Re-awakening
The Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan
PKK Relations with Iraqi Kurdish Parties
PKK Ideology and the 'Kurdish Personality'
The PKK and the 'Real' Kurdish Personality
PKK Strategy and Tactics
The PKK's Treatment of Internal Critics
Paranoia and Mercy?
The PKK and the Turkish Left
Marxism and Class Struggle
The PKK's Social Base
Partiya Sosyalist a Kurdistan
7: From
Serihildan to Europe
Oezal's Bold Proposals
From Serihildan to Ceasefire
From Ceasefire to Parliamentary Kurdish Nationalism
The Failure of Parliamentary Kurdish Nationalism
The State and 'Mystery Killings'
From Total War to Europe
PKK Expansion into Europe
The PKK's Search for Legal-Rational Legitimation
Oecalan Intervenes in Europe
The PKK's Reorientation
Ramifications of Abdullah Oecalan's Capture
Leadership Succession in the PKK
Bandits, Terrorists, Child Kidnappers and Drug-Dealers?
Extortion
Terrorism
Abduction of Children
Drug-Dealers?
8: Conclusion:
Leadership in the Kurdish National Movement Today
Introduction
Eric Hobsbawm's "Primitive Rebels"
Kurdish State-Building and Democratization
Max Weber's Charismatic Leadership
Oecalan's Political Project Decoded
An Incomplete Process of Modernization
Appendixes:
1. PKK 'People's Court': 27 June 1992, Mahsum Korkmaz Akademisi
2. PKK Chronology
Bibliography
Index
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