Dynamics of Communal Violence in the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict

Imren Borsuk
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Imren Borsuk: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

The Commentaries, 2023, vol. 3, issue 1, 11-24

Abstract: Since the 2000s, Turkish-Kurdish communal violence has emerged as a new mode of confrontation in the recent history of Turkey’s Kurdish conflict. Based upon contentious politics literature, this article traces two causal dynamics that have enabled communal violence as a new challenge in the recent history of Turkey’s Kurdish conflict: racialization and countermobilization. While racialization has already been underlined in the literature on the Kurdish conflict, I will argue, however, that a new analytical mechanism that is somewhat neglected in the literature, counter-mobilization, plays a crucial role in the onset and diffusion of communal violence, especially during high-intensity electoral competitions.

Keywords: Turkey's Kurdish conflict; communal violence; contentious politics; countermobilization; racialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.33182/tc.v3i1.2308

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