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HENRI J. BARKEYAND GRAHAM E. FULLER, Turkey's Kurdish Question (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998). Pp. 258. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2002

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The Kurdish question has remained one of the most destabilizing issues for modern Turkey. Despite decades of military campaigns in the southeast and the existence of a continuing state of emergency in that region of Turkey for more than a decade, various Turkish governments have yet to resolve their Kurdish dilemma in a satisfactory way. According to the Turkish Association for Human Rights, some 3 million Kurds have been driven from their villages by the Turkish army, and some 3,000 Kurdish villages have been evacuated (ethnically cleansed) over the past fourteen years. In addition to military campaigns in Turkey's southeast, disappearances, summary trials, and other forms of political repression have turned the region into a permanent war zone.

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Book Review
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 467 - 469
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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