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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