Volume 53, Number 1 · January 12, 2006
Kurds in Turkey: The Big Change
By Stephen Kinzer
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Kurds in Turkey: EU Accession and Human Rights
by Kerim Yildiz, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky
Pluto Press, 182 pp., $55.00
Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade
by John Tirman
Free Press, 310 pp., $25.00
The Turks Today
by Andrew Mango
Overlook, 292 pp., $29.95
Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas
by Nadire Mater, translated from the Turkish by Ayse Gul Altinay, with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe
Palgrave Macmillan, 320 pp., $39.95
Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey, has for centuries been the center of Kurdish political and cultural life. For much of the 1990s it was under a harsh form of military rule. Turkish soldiers and police officers, many in plain clothes, were everywhere. Armored personnel carriers crawled along main streets, manned by soldiers with automatic rifles who kept constant watch over sullen crowds. People who supported the idea of Kurdish nationalism lived in constant fear. Several hundred were murdered on the streets or abducted and tortured to death.
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