Kirisci and Winrows courageous and timely account is
unquestionably the single most important study to date on the
intricacies and difficulties of Turkey"s Kurdish question." Henri
J. Barkey, Lehigh University, Middle East Quarterly
"a strong contribution to the field, essential for study by any
serious student of Kurdish affairs and contemporary Turkish
studies"
The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin
"Kirisci and Winrow"s book should be purchased by all university,
college, and large urban libraries." Choice
"....impressive scholarship, balance and thoroughness....This book
comes as a welcome relief amidst the clamour of accusation and
counter-accusation in a thoroughly documented and impartial manner,
drawing on Turkish and other media reports, interviews and the
scholarly literature on minorieties in general, the writers give a
remarkably comprehensive account of the course of the struggle,
especially since the 1980"s.....essential reading for anyone trying
to get to grips with the kurdish problem, both in Turkey and
neighbouring countries."
William Hale, Middle Eastern Studies
"Provides a very useful theoretical and historical background as
well as an analysis of the current state of affairs." Ishan D Dagi,
Middle East Technical University, Turkey - Millennium Journal of
International Studies
Amazon Bookshop - reader review
"If you are curious about this subject and want to discuss the
realistic solutions to the Kurdish problem, and need a brief source
of information, I strongly recommend this book to you."
Studies in Conflict - Reviewed by Philip Robins - St Anthony"s
College - Uni of Oxford
"As both a provocative nudge, gently administered, to the rulers of
Turkey and as a valuable addition to university reading lists, this
book has a contribution to make."
Source Unknown - reviewed by Michael Gunter - Department of
Political Science Tennessee Technological Uni - Cookeville
"This is a scholarly, well-balanced, and conceptually sound
analysis of the Kurdish question in Turkey, written by a Turkish
national and his English colleague at the university of the
Bosporus in Istanbul."
"..the appearance of this objective attempt to grapple with the
situation is encouraging.."
"In the context of a debilitating official Turkish political
correctness, this is not only an accurate but a courageous
assessment of the party that has led a bloody insurgency in Turkey
since 1984."
Middle East Journal - Reveiwed by Robert Olson - Prof. of Middle
East and Islamic History
The Jerusalem Post-" Kemal Kirisci and Gareth Winrow have written
an engaging, analytical account of a serious regional problem-
ethnic conflict across state boundaries"
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1999
"Although this study offers both a sophisticated theoretical
framework and a fairly comprehensive overview of the development of
Turkish-Kurdish relations, it is particularly interesting as an
indication of a developing discourse on the Kurds in Turkish
academic circles. In this context it is a welcome addition to the
scanty materials produced in Turkey on the Kurdish question."
International History Review, Vol 20, No 3, Sept 98
"A pioneering history of the effects of the Kurdish question on
Turkey."
New Renaissance, Vol 9, No 1 AND International Journal on World
Peace, Vol 16, No 1, March 1999 (Same review appeared in both
journals)
"As the authors of this important study indicate, the Kurdish
question in Turkey is a highly complex, controversial and extremely
politically sensitive issue... Both Kirisci and Winrow teach
political science at Bogazici University in Istanbul and so are
close observers of the Turkish political scene.
Kemal Kirisci, Gareth M. Winrow
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