TY - BOOK AU - Özcan,Ali Kemal TI - Turkey's Kurds: a theoretical analysis of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan T2 - Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies SN - 9780415613194 (pbk.) : AV - DR435.K87 O923 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê KW - Kurds KW - Turkey KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Autonomy and independence movements N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-304) and index; Nationalism : distilling the cultural and the political -- The seeds of Turkey's Kurdish question -- Enter the PKK -- The discourse and objectives of the PKK -- Sources of motivations : the organization and the individual -- The rise and fall of the PKK : questions, confrontations and the impasse -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : apparent obscurity ER -