Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey’s Kurdish question
June 23, 2020
Turkey Book Talk episode #118 – Serhun Al on the historical origins of Turkey’s Kurdish issue and the latest crackdown on the Kurdish movement.
Al is assistant professor at Izmir Economics University, co-editor of “Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East” (Palgrave Macmillan), and author of “Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey” (Routledge) as well as a number of academic article on the Kurdish issue.
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