Turkey's Kurds

Turkey’s Kurds
A theoretical analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan
Ali Kemal Özcan

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Ali Kemal Özcan holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Kent. His recent publications include Humanisation Movement (Berlin, 1999); The Nature and Resource Field of the Kurdish Resistance in Turkey: A Dormant Resource’, Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2005); ‘Nationalism: Distilling the Cultural and the Political’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2005). His research interests include nationalism, democratization and civil society.