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      The ethnic question in an environment of insecurity: the Kurds in Turkey

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      Icduygu, A.
      Romano, D.
      Sirkeci, I.
      Date
      1999
      Source Title
      Ethnic and Racial Studies
      Print ISSN
      0141-9870
      Electronic ISSN
      01466-4356
      Volume
      22
      Issue
      6
      Pages
      991 - 1010
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article examines the effect that a poor structural context, what we term an 'environment of insecurity', has on the Kurdish ethnic nationalist mobilization in Turkey. The empirical evidence for this analysis is based on data from the 1993 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey [TDHS]. The data provide, to the best of our knowledge, the first reliable and representative figures on the situation of Kurds in Turkey. Our key claim is that the Kurdish population in Turkey is relatively much worse off than the Turkish population in the country. This claim is strongly supported by the data. Many other factors also account for the ethnic nationalist mobilization, but we argue that the Turkish Kurds' environment of insecurity, materially and non-materially, stands out as a key package of both causal and intermediate variables behind the ethnic revival.
      Keywords
      Environment of insecurity
      Ethnic revival
      Kurdish population
      Kurds
      Turkey
      Turkish population
      Ethnic revival
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/25157
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014198799329215
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