The Kurds and the Future of Turkey / The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict

From: The Middle East Journal | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Kurds and the Future of Turkey, by Michael Gunter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. vii + 136 pages. Notes to p. 165. Bibl. to p. 174. Index to p. 184. $45.

The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict, by Kemal Kirisci and Gareth M. Winrow. London: Frank Cass, 1997. xvi + 216 pages. Bibl. to p. 230. Index to p. 237. $45.

Michael Gunter's short monograph is an updated version of his 1990 study The Kurds in Turkey: A Political Dilemma, a study that Gunter asserts "proved prescient" in noting that the Kurdish problem in Turkey "potentially threatened the ...

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