Title: The Kurdish Question in Turkey: New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation.
Author: 1. #Cengiz Gunes# , 2. Welat Zeydanlioglu
Place of publication: London
Publisher: Routledge
Release date: 2014

Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern Kurdish regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately
20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and according to the Turkish authorities, the conflict has cost the lives of 40,000 people, including soldiers, guerrillas and civilians. The complex issue of the Kurdish question in Turkey is subject to comprehensive examination in this book.
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