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      Why religious people support ethnic insurgency? Kurds, religion and support for the PKK

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      Author(s)
      Karakoç, E.
      Sarıgil, Zeki
      Date
      2020
      Source Title
      Politics and Religion
      Print ISSN
      1755-0483
      Electronic ISSN
      1755-0491
      Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
      Volume
      13
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      245 - 272
      Language
      English
      Type
      Review
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      Abstract
      This study challenges a dominant view that religion constrains the support for an ethnic insurgency. It argues that observing the discrepancy between religious brotherhood discourses of ethnic majority state and discrimination and inter-ethnic inequality in the social, political, and economic sphere as a result of the long-standing securitization of minority rights increase skepticism toward government among religious minorities. This long-term perception makes them receptive to the messages of an insurgent group that claims to fight for cultural and political rights of an ethnic minority. Utilizing two original public opinion surveys conducted in Turkey in 2011 and 2013, before and right after the peace talks between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers' Party—The Partîya Karkêren Kurdistan (PKK), this study tests its hypotheses by taking the Kurdish conflict as a case study. The findings challenge the dominant paradigm that expects a negative relationship between religiosity and rebel support. Religious Kurds do not differ from non-religious ones in support for the formerly Marxist–Leninist PKK. Second, political and economic grievances matter; the perception among Kurds, of state discrimination and inter-ethnic economic inequality generates positive attitudes toward the PKK. Finally, the perception of inter-ethnic socioeconomic inequality amplifies support for the PKK among religious Kurds.
      Keywords
      Ethnic majority
      Ethnic majority state
      Religious minority
      Minority rights
      PKK
      Kurds
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/53234
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755048319000312
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