The Kurds and Middle Eastern “State of Violence”: the 1980s and 2010s

Kurd û Rewşa Tund ya Rojhilata Navîn: 1980yan û 2010an

Hamit Bozarslan
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Hamit Bozarslan: École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France

Kurdish Studies, 2014, vol. 2, issue 1, 4-13

Abstract: Though a macro-level analysis this article examines the evolution of the Kurdish issue since the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and the Syrian crisis in 2011, underlining the necessity of a comparison between the current period and past situations, namely that of the 1980s. Kurdish actors participated from a rather weak position in the Middle-East wide conflicts during the 1980s; alliances with regional states that gave access to political and military resources ensured their durability, but a high price was paid for their transformation into subordinated players of a broader “state of violence”. Since 2011, the trans-border Kurdish space finds itself once again in the heart of a “system of transaction” based on violence, but Kurdish organisations face the new region-wide conflicts in a position of empowerment in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

Keywords: Kurdish movements; state of violence; Iraq; Syria; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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