The Kurdish question: Law, politics and the limits of recognition

  • It is commonly assumed that the exceptional treatment of the Kurds under the law is a provisional phenomenon that occurs during interim regimes and ends with the return to normalcy. In reality, the Kurdish region has always been governed by some form of state of exception. What has changed at times when a special legal regime was de jure in force was the intensity and scale of human rights violations against civilians committed through emergency regimes, forced displacement and cultural assimilation, processes which were often in place simultaneously.When the EU membership process started, many assumed that Turkey would have to undertake a radical overhaul of its constitutional and legislative order and to ensure the equal treatment of all its citizens, in law and in fact. This chapter argues that despite some progress, Turkey’s policies on the Kurdish question have remained by and large intact. It concludes, however, that while the legal framework is still ‘ethnic-blind’ vis-à-vis the Kurds, politics no longer is, as evident not only in the AKP Government’s recognition of the Kurdish identity but also in the Kurdish movement's increasingly bolder claims for a political solution to the conflict.
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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Dilek Kurban
Parent Title (English):Turkey's Democratization Process
Publisher:Routledge
Place of Publisher:London [u.a.]
Publication year:2014
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:345
Last Page:360
ISBN:978-0-415-83696-8
Release Date:2015/08/06
Tag:Kurdish question and democratization in Turkey
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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