Gülay Türkmen on Turks, Kurds and the limits of religious unity

December 22, 2020

Turkey Book Talk #131 – Gülay Türkmen, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen, on “Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds and the Limits of Religious Unity” (Oxford University Press).

The book addresses how Islam has been used as a tool of both unity and resistance by various sides in Turkey’s Kurdish question.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in AKP, Interviews, Islam, Islamism, Kurdish issue, Kurds, Minorities, Nationalism, Politics, Religion, Turkey, Turkish politics
Tags: Gulay Turkmen, Islam, Kurdish issue, Kurds, political Islam in Turkey, Turkish history, Turkish politics

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