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The Commentaries – Volume 2, 2022

Edited by Joost Jongerden, Cengiz Gunes, Bahar Simsek 
Published: 28 December 2022 [Mediterranean Politics Series: 3]

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The Commentaries is a journal that publishes analysis, evaluations and assessments of contemporary developments in Turkey, Turkey’s role in the MENA region, and Turkey-EU relations. It does so for a broad audience of scholars, policy-makers, professionals and students. The aim of The Commentaries is to draw attention to current advances, discuss policies and practices, and to stimulate critical discussion and theoretical reflection. The Commentaries is an initiative of the European Union Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC).

CONTENTS

• Anti-intellectualism and discrediting of critical academics in Turkey: an approach to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict – Serhat Tutkal
• Promoting Terror by the Turkish StateThe Case of the Turkistan Islamic Party – Seevan Seevan Saeed
• Some Implications of Sweden and Finland Joining NATO – Michael Gunter
• Turkish Racism Against Kurds: Colonial Violence, Racist Slurs and Mob Attacks – Güllistan Yarkın
• The Kurds in LebanonPost-Naturalization Political Survival Strategies – Guita Hourani
• Turkey’s Military Urbanism and Neocolonial Architecture in Kurdish Cities – Diren Tas
• Environmental Racism and Resistance in Kurdistan – Pinar Dinc
• Delisting the PKK as a Terrorist Organization – Michael Gunter
• Kurdish Allies and Kurdish Enemies: Turkey’s New War Against The PKK – Kamal Chomani, Dastan Jasim
• Turkish Paramilitaries during the Conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK – Dr. Ayhan Işık

ABOUT THE EDITORS:

Joost Jongerden (PhD) is an Associate Professor at Rural Sociology, Wageningen University, the Netherlands and project professor at the Asian Platform for Global Sustainability and Transcultural Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Broadly, his research covers the field of ‘Do-It-Yourself Development’ or the possibilities and potentials of alternative futures grounded in daily practices and present struggles. His main geographic focus is Turkey, Kurdistan and the Middle East. A list of publications is available at https://joostjongerden.academia.edu/research

Bahar Şimşek (PhD) graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Middle East Technical University. Shortly thereafter, she received her MA from Ankara University, based on research on ethnic encounters in Turkish films. Between the years 2009 and 2017, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema at Ankara University. She continued her research in Area Studies at Leiden University. Her PhD research explores the political histories within which Kurdish cinema has taken shape, and offers a political-theoretical framework for making sense of contemporary forms of aesthetic experimentation in Kurdish film.

Cengiz Gunes (PhD) completed his PhD at the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK. His main research interests are in the areas of autonomy and the accommodation of minorities, peace and conflict studies, the Kurds in the Middle East, the international relations of the Middle East and Turkish politics. He is the author of The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey: From Protest to Resistance (London: Routledge, 2012), The Kurds in a New Middle East: The Changing Geopolitics of a regional Conflict (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), and The Political Representation of Kurds in Turkey: New Actors and Modes of Participation in a Changing Society (London: I.B. Tauris). He is co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Kurds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Kurdish Question in Turkey: New Perspectives on Violence, Representation, and Reconciliation (London: Routledge, 2014). He has presented papers in national and international conferences and published articles in New Left Review, Ethnopolitics and Peace Review. He is currently an Associate Lecturer and an Honorary Research Associate in Politics at the Open University, UK.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

ISBN: 978-1-80135-190-4 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-80135-191-1 (Digital)
Publisher: Transnational Press London
Published: 28 December 2022
Language: English
Pages: 133
Binding: Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Weight (approx.): 0.3 kg
Dimensions (approx.): 15cm wide x 23cm tall