Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

Marlies Casier is research affiliate of the Middle East and North Africa Research Group at Ghent University in Belgium, interested in (trans)nationalism, political mobilization, Kurds and Turkey. She has published on the transnational politics of Turkey’s Kurds in Ethnicities and on the institutionalization of human rights protection in Turkey in European Journal of Turkish Studies. Joost Jongerden is Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Department at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He is a sociologist by training, and mainly interested in development and conflict studies, with a focus on Turkey and Kurdistan.

• Introduction Part I: Political Islam and Turkey’s Secularist-Nationalist Project 1. Turkey’s Present Ancient Regime and the Justice and Development PartyMenderes Cinar 2. Democratization, Clashing Narratives, and ‘Twin Tolerations’ between Islamic-Conservative and Pro-Secular ActorsMurat Somer 3. ‘Nationalist’ Reconstructions in the Light of Disappearing BordersFerhat Kental Part II: Facing the Kurdish Issue 4. The Kurdish Question in Turkey Mesut Yegen 5. Turgut Ozal and the Kurdish Question Michael Gunter 6. The Justice and Development Party and the Kurdish QuestionTozun Bahceli and Sid Noel Part III: Challenging the State 7. Born from the Left: The Making of the PKK Joost Jongerdenand Ahmet Akkaya 8. The PKK in the 2000s: Continuity Through Breaks?Ahmet Akkayaand Joost Jongerden Part IV: Calling upon Turkey: Agents of Long-Distance Nationalism 9. Constructing Communities in theTurkish Diaspora: A Quest for PoliticsAyhan Kaya 10. Bringing the Organization Back in: Pro-Kurdish Protest in EuropeOliver Grojean 11. The Politics of Solidarity: The Kurdish Question in European ParliamentMarlies Casier