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11 The Politics of Energy in Turkey: Running Engines on Geopolitical, Discursive, and Coercive Power
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A Historical Trajectory of Turkish–Kurdish Relations in the Twentieth Century A Historical Trajectory of Turkish–Kurdish Relations in the Twentieth Century
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Turkish–Kurdish Relations in the 1980s and 1990s: Violence, Containment, and Resistance Turkish–Kurdish Relations in the 1980s and 1990s: Violence, Containment, and Resistance
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Scholarship on the Kurdish Movement in Turkey Scholarship on the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
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Empirical Insights from the Ground Empirical Insights from the Ground
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Politicizing the Everyday: Individual Aspirations, Local Governance Politicizing the Everyday: Individual Aspirations, Local Governance
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The Transnational Level: Solidarities across Borders The Transnational Level: Solidarities across Borders
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Discussion Discussion
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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Notes Notes
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References References
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20 The Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Understanding Everyday Perceptions and Experiences
Get accessDilan Okcuoglu, American University
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Published:14 April 2021
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Abstract
The prolonged conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), spanning four decades, has resulted in 4,000 villages evacuated, and more than 3 million people displaced. Despite this profound impact on people’s everyday lives, studies on people’s perceptions of the Kurdish movement are still limited. Drawing on qualitative interviews with Kurdish participants in Turkey, this chapter explores how Kurds from different backgrounds, of different ages, and politicized to different degrees, perceive the Kurdish movement and what motivates their commitment to it. Guided by an interpretivist methodology and drawing on findings from fieldwork, the chapter proposes that everyday experiences and understandings of the Kurdish movement are embedded and salient in a political sense. It concludes that by mobilizing people’s everyday perceptions and experiences and translating them into political engagement, the Kurdish movement shifts the scale of politics from a national to transnational and local levels. This shift implies that conducting extensive qualitative research among ordinary people brings a novel understanding of political movements and ethnic conflict in terms of both people’s motivations and movements’ strategic choices.
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