Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
August 17, 2021
Turkey Book Talk episode #148 – Ömer Tekdemir, lecturer in political economy at Coventry University, on “Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony and Identity” (Routledge).
The book is a sweeping account of the social, political and economic circumstances shaping the emergence of collective Kurdish identity from the late Ottoman era to today’s Turkey.
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