Overview
- Questions how to organise post imperial multi-ethnic and multi-nation states so that majorities and minorities can coexist
- Encourages political participation and collective recognition of minorities so that they do not pursue the road to secession
- Contributes to the pacification of a democratic and plural Turkish Republic
Part of the book series: Comparative Territorial Politics (COMPTPOL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Discussions
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Front Matter
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Autonomy Discussions in Turkey and the Kurdish Issue
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines modalities for the recognition and political participation of minorities in plurinational states in theory and in practice, with a specific reference to the Republic of Turkey and the resolution of the Kurdish question. Drawing on the experience of Spain and Eastern Europe and other recent novel models for minority accommodation, including the Ottoman experience of minority autonomy (the Millet System), the volume brings together researchers from Turkey and Europe more broadly to develop an ongoing dialogue that analytically examines various models for national minority accommodation. These models promise to protect the state’s integrity and provide governmental mechanisms that satisfy demands for collective representation of national communities in the framework of a plurinational state.
Reviews
“How best to achieve minority representation in plurinational states? In 2015 the contributors to this book conferred in Ankara as the second phase of the “Kurdish Opening” was coming to an end. Sincethen, several have been dismissed from their university posts by an increasingly authoritarian regime. The achievement of Nimni and Aktoprak is to have brought together interventions by scholars located in Turkey and in Western Europe, which provide penetrating insights and possible solutions not only for the Kurds, but for minorities everywhere.” (Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ephraim Nimni is Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published widely on minority rights, models of national self-determination that do not require separate nation states, multiculturalism and the applicability of the national cultural autonomy model to contemporary multination states, and on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
Elçin Aktoprak was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey, until she was dismissed as per the emergency decree in February 2017. Her research interests are theories of nationalism, minority issues in Europe, the Kurdish question, conflict resolution and peace studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratic Representation in Plurinational States
Book Subtitle: The Kurds in Turkey
Editors: Ephraim Nimni, Elçin Aktoprak
Series Title: Comparative Territorial Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01108-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01107-9Published: 14 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40361-4Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01108-6Published: 28 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8162
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 255
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics, Democracy, Governance and Government, Citizenship