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The Kurdish Spring

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  • Michael Gunter

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The purpose of this article is to survey the Kurdish Spring (demands for meaningful democracy along with cultural, social, and political rights and their immediate implementation) that has occurred in the aftermath of the much better known Arab Spring which began in late 2010. To this end it analyses the situation in Turkey, Iraq and Syria. In Turkey the failure of the government’s much heralded Kurdish Opening and the prospects for its renewal are investigated. This includes the continuing kck arrests and sentencings that seem more a war on dissent than on terror. In Iraq the rise of the Gorran Party, anti-government demonstrations which occurred in 2011, and Kurdistan Regional Government (krg) president Massoud Barzani’s recent hints that the krg will declare independence are discussed. The failure to agree on a hydrocarbons law and on a boundary for the krg are two major reasons for Barzani’s position. For Syria the article analyses the assassination of Mishaal Tammo in October 2011 and the rise of the pkk-affiliated pyd against the background of Syria suddenly becoming a major factor in the Kurdish Spring. Iran’s relative quiescence will also be noted.

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  • Michael Gunter, 2013. "The Kurdish Spring," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 441-457.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:3:p:441-457
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.785339
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    1. Nazand Begikhani & Wendelmoet Hamelink & Nerina Weiss, 2018. "Theorising women and war in Kurdistan: A feminist and critical perspective [Bîrdoza jin û şer li Kurdistanê. Perspektîveke femînîst û rexnegirî]," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 6(1), pages 5-30, May.
    2. Andrey Korotayev & Leonid Grinin & Leonid Issaev & Alisa Shishkina & Evgeny Ivanov & Kira Meshcherina, 2017. "World Order Transformation and Sociopolitical Destabilization," HSE Working papers WP BRP 29/IR/2017, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    3. Hawre Hasan Hama, 2019. "Article 140 Between Baghdad and KRG: The Future of Kirkuk Status in Post 16 October," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 75(4), pages 510-524, December.
    4. Joost Jongerden, 2016. "Making sense: research as active engagement," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 4(1), pages 94-104, May.
    5. Bahar Baser & Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson & Mari Toivanen, 2015. "(In)visible spaces and tactics of transnational engagement: A multi-dimensional approach to the Kurdish diaspora [Meydanên (ne)diyar û rêbazên çalakvaniya siyasî ya fera-neteweyî: Nirxandineke pir-," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 3(2), pages 128-150, October.
    6. Güllistan Yarkın, 2015. "The Ideological Transformation of the PKK regarding the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey [Guherîna îdeolojîk di PKKyê de û aboriya siyasî ya herêma kurdî li Tirkiyeyê]," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 3(1), pages 26-46, May.
    7. Michael M. Gunter, 2015. "The Kurds in the changing political map of the Middle East [Kurd di xerîteya siyasî ya Rojhilata Navîn a di guherînê de]," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 3(1), pages 64-81, May.
    8. Joost Jongerden, 2019. "Learning from defeat: Development and contestation of the “new paradigm” within Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)," Kurdish Studies, Society of history and cultural studies, Hong Kong, vol. 7(1), pages 1-21, May.

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