The State of the Kurdish Question and the Process of Its Settlement in Modern Turkey: Emerging Trends in English-Language Scientific Discourse
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The article analyzes the main trends presented in the English-language scientific discourse of the 2000’s – 2020’s on the Kurdish issue in modern Turkey and the policy of the Turkish government aimed at its resolving. There is an attempt to systematize a huge array of English-language studies devoted to the Kurdish issue, published from the late 1990’s to 2021, in several problem-thematic areas.
It is substantiated that modern English-language scientific discourse on the Kurdish issue in Turkey is represented by studies of M. Gunter, D. McDowall, W. Wyndham, N. Berlatsky, F. Bilgin, A. Sarihan, M. Gurses, D. Romano, K. Mckiernan, L. Riamei, M. Rubin, G. Stansfield, and M. Shareef. The discursive space for this historiography is mainly determined by: 1) conducting researches on the history of the population of the South-Eastern provinces of Turkey, the genesis of the Kurdish issue and its geopolitical dimension; 2) studies of socio-political processes in the South-Eastern provinces of Turkey, primarily the relationships between the government and the population of the region; 3) studies of socio-anthropological, ethnic, gender, humanitarian aspects of life of the population of the South-Eastern provinces of Turkey; 4) studies of the “Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process” of 2010’s, associated with a whole-scale change in the relations between the government and the people of the South-Eastern provinces in the direction of a peaceful settlement of the Kurdish issue, in particular in the context of fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria related to Turkey’s European integration aspirations.
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Turkey, South-Eastern provinces of Turkey, English-language scientific discourse, Kurdish issue, “Turkish-Kurdish Peace Process”
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