Mehmet Gurses on the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue

About this episode

Mehmet Gurses discusses the transformation of Turkey's Kurdish issue and the historical context of the PKK's emergence.

Mehmet Gurses, director of Kurdish Studies at the University of Central Florida, on his article “Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict Transformed”, recently published in the journal Current History. The article places the PKK’s emergence and transformations in a historical context over the past four decades, also weighing up shifts that may be triggered by its current dialogue process with Ankara. Please support Turkey Book Talk on Patreon or Substack. Supporters get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman History books published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, transcripts of every interview, and links to articles related to each episode. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/

People in this episode

Host: William Armstrong

Guest: Mehmet Gurses

Topics covered

• Kurdish issue
• Turkey
• PKK
• historical context
• dialogue process
• politics

Keywords

• Kurdish issue
• Turkey
• PKK
• dialogue process
• Current History
• Mehmet Gurses
• Kurdish Studies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Central Florida, Current History

Books & works: Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict Transformed

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