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The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in the 1990s: Its Impact on Turkey and the Middle East

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Great book shows the development of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey and the rest of the middle east. Also shows the terrible repression and the genocide that Turkey is perpetrating against the Kurds. Lastly shows that Kemalism and the Turkish policy of not even letting the Kurds "exist" in linguistic or cultural terms must end.

Perhaps the most valuable lesson that can be gleamed from this collection of essays is that the resolution of the Kurdish problem will come only with Turkey's realization that it must reform the fundamental characteristic of its particular political basis - Kemalism. As Mark Muller writes, only by abandoning ethno-nationalism for nationalism, which strikes at the heart of Turkey's entire existence since 1920, can Turkey deal successfully with the Kurds. Discovering such a lesson is well worth reading this book. END

Great book and very informative. I hope the author will write more books about the world's biggest stateless nation also in the future.