Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue

Turkey Book Talk
18/03/2025 34 min Episodio 216
Cuma Çiçek on PKK disarmament and the future of Turkey's Kurdish issue

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Cuma Çiçek, author of “The Kurds of Turkey: National, Religious and Economic Identities” (IB Tauris), on the dynamics behind Ankara's push for the PKK's dissolution, what it means for Turkish politics and what it means for the future of the Kurdish issue.
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