caa a22 4500 388102349 CHVBK 20180307125326.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800057123 doi S0020743800057123 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800057123 Watts Nicole F. Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle East Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195, USA. Allies and Enemies: Pro-Kurdish Parties in Turkish Politics, 1990-94 [Elektronische Daten] [Nicole F. Watts] Preventing the development of an ethnic Kurdish cultural and political movement has been a priority of the Turkish state since the Kurdish-led Shaykh Said Rebellion of 1925.' Nevertheless, beginning around 1959 this effort was steadily if slowly undermined, and events of the past ten years suggest that it has indeed failed. Not only have Kurdish activists gained some measure of international recognition for themselves and for the concept of Kurdish ethnic rights,2 but promoting the notion of specifically Kurdish cultural rights has almost become a standard litany for a wide array of Turkish civic and state actors, from Islamist political parties to business organizations, human-rights groups, prime ministers, and mainstream newspaper columnists. Although the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its insurgency against Turkey have claimed a great deal of academic and popular attention, it is these diffuse but public re-considerations of minority rights taking place within legitimate Turkish institutions have contributed the most to the sense that past policies of coping with the "Kurdish reality” are ultimately unsustainable, and that it may be difficult, if not impossible, to return to the climate of earlier years, when discussions of ethnic difference were suppressed, limited to the private realm, or confined to the fringes of radical politics. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/4(1999-11), 631-656 0020-7438 31:4<631 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800057123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800057123 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Watts Nicole F. Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle East Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/4(1999-11), 631-656 0020-7438 31:4<631 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge