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Turkey's Mission Impossible

War and Peace with the Kurds
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This is a work of excavation of the modern history of Turkey, with the Kurdish question at its center, unearthed and exposed in Candar's captivating narrative. The founding of a Turkish nation-state in Asia Minor brought with it the denial of the distinct Kurdish identity in its midst, giving birth to an intractable problem that led to intermittent Kurdish revolts and culminated in the enduring insurgency of the PKK. The Kurdish question is perceived as a mortal threat for the survival of Turkey. The author weaves a fascinating account of the encounter between Turkey and the Kurds in historical perspective with special emphasis on failed peace processes. Providing a unique historical record of the authoritarian, centralist and ultra-nationalist-rather than Islamist-nature of the Turkish state rooted in the last decades of the Ottoman period and finally manifested in Erdogan's "New Turkey," Candar challenges stereotyped and conventional views on the Turkey of today and tomorrow. Turkey's Mission Impossible: War and Peace with the Kurds combines scholarly research with the memoirs of a participant observer, richly revealing the author's first-hand knowledge of developments acquired over a lifetime devoted to the resolution of perhaps the most complex problem of the Middle East.
Cengiz Candar is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies.He is a scholar and journalist, is the leading expert in Turkey on the Middle East, the main architect of the Turkish-Kurdish rapprochement as President Turgut OEzal's advisor in the 1990s.
Chapter1: Historical and Ideological Background Chapter 2. Kurdish Uprisings Chapter 3. The Longest Kurdish Insurgency Chapter 4. OEcalan and the Birth and Evolution of the PKK Chapter 5. OEzal, Talabani, OEcalan Chapter 6. New Century, New Prospects, New Initiatives Chapter 7. Road to Oslo, Contacts, and Back Channels Chapter 8. Oslo, Talking on Secrecy Chapter 9. Erdogan's Dance with OEcalan: Peace Process in Public Chapter 10. Elusive Peace, Not Talking Turkey Chapter 11. Battlefield Syria Chapter 12. Neighboring Quagmire Chapter 13. A Coup for a New Turkey Chapter 14. Deep State Chapter 15. The Pedigree of Turkish Autocracy Chapter 16. New Turkey: A Reincarnation
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