Description
Book SynopsisThis research focuses on the period 2003 to 2014, which was exceptional in the history of the Turkish Republic for its radical shift in the official stance adopted towards Kurds. The overall Kurdish policy of the AKP in 200314 was part of a wider agenda of refashioning the nation on an anti-Kemalist, anti-elitist, and essentially pro-Muslim basis. This reconstruction of the nation was built on the populist claim to be ending the varying levels of social and cultural exclusion that the religious masses, Kurds, informal employees, and poorly educated rural masses had been subject to as subaltern groups of the Republic. This policy did not work. The AKP failed to establish Turkish hegemony over Kurds and could not suppress the Kurdish national movement. This book looks for an explanation of the failure of the Kurdish policy of the AKP by considering the limits of its social policy in instituting a compliant, cooperative, submissive Kurdish subjectivity. To do this, it focuses on the pe
Table of Contents
List of Figures – List of Tables – Preface – Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Kurdish Question, Sovereign Violence, and Hakkâri – Indirect State Racism, Healthcare Provision, and Hakkâri – Turkish Nationalism, the Kurdish Question, and Hakkâri: Discourses and Practices, 2003–2014 – The Persistence of Patient Dissatisfaction as a Mass Phenomenon – The Compulsory Public Service of Doctors (CPSD) in Hakkâri – Discussion – Appendix – Bibliography – Index.
