The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored aby the West, Kurds are now highly visible actors on the world's political stage.
More than half live in Turkey, where the Kurdish struggle has gained new strength and attention since the U.S. Overthrow of Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq. Essential to understanding modern-day Kurds - and their continuing demands for an independent state - is understanding the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
A guerrilla force that was founded in 1978 żeby a small group of ex-Turkish university students, the PKK radicalized the Kurdish national movement in Turkey, becoming a tightly organized, well-armed fighting force of some 15,000, with a 50,000-member civilian militia in Turkey and tens of thousands of active backers in Europe.
Under the leadership of Abdullah Ocalan, the war the PKK waged in Turkey through 1999 left nearly 40,000 people dead and drew in the neighboring states of Iran, Iraq, and Syria, all of whom sought to use the PKK for their own purposes.Since 2004, emboldened żeby the Iraqi Kurds, who now have established an autonomous Kurdish state in the northernmost reaches of Iraq, the PKK has again turned to violence to meet its objectives.
"Blood and Belief" combines reportage and scholarship to give the first in-depth account of the PKK. Aliza Marcus, one of the first Western reporters to meet with PKK rebels, wrote about their war for many years for a variety of prominent publications before being put on trial in Turkey for her reporting.
Based on her interviews with PKK rebels and their supporters and opponents throughout the world - including the Palestinians who trained them, the intelligence services that tracked them, and the dissidents who tried to break them up - Marcus provides an in-depth account of this influential radical group.
"String's "Fearing the Black Body" critically examines the concepts of fat phobia and race"--140,38 zł
From its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative...140,38 zł
Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern...140,38 zł
The Kurds, who number some 28 million people in the Middle East, have no country they can call their own. Long ignored żeby the West, Kurds are...140,38 zł
Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of...208,79 zł
Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 żeby Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly--an online...59,86 zł
Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of...129,66 zł
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming...168,48 zł
One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox The American Society...151,10 zł
Since its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the most sought after drugs in history,...140,38 zł
Opinie i recenzje użytkowników
Dodaj opinie lub recenzję dla Blood and Belief. Twój komentarz zostanie wyświetlony po moderacji.