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Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967

Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern... Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967 AZAT ZANA GUNDOGAN 1. Introduction This paper is an attempt to contribute to our understanding of the making of the ‘Turkish’ nation-state space in the 1960s and the role of Kurdish contentious politics in mediating the making of this space. It does so by focusing on the particular process of identity formation of a group of activists (Easterners), their specific mobilization (Eastern Meetings) and finally the region itself (the East). This latter was (and still is) a space of intense contentious politics with various forms and repertoires. Held in 1967, in various Kurdish cities, Eastern Meetings (Dogu Mitingleri) reveal a mostly neglected alternative political agenda by the Kurdish contenders who imagined and reconstructed a different ‘East’ in their protests and actions against ethno-nationalist suppression and exploitation by the Turkish state elite and dominant classes. I argue that the East as a Kurdish region as we know it today owes its symbolic meaning as much to the place- making collective actions of this generation of activists as it does to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Taylor & Francis

Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967

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Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967

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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967 AZAT ZANA GUNDOGAN 1. Introduction This paper is an attempt to contribute to our understanding of the making of the ‘Turkish’ nation-state space in the 1960s and the role of Kurdish contentious politics in mediating the making of this space. It does so by focusing on the particular process of...
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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Space, state-making and contentious Kurdish politics in the East of Turkey: the case of Eastern Meetings, 1967 AZAT ZANA GUNDOGAN 1. Introduction This paper is an attempt to contribute to our understanding of the making of the ‘Turkish’ nation-state space in the 1960s and the role of Kurdish contentious politics in mediating the making of this space. It does so by focusing on the particular process of identity formation of a group of activists (Easterners), their specific mobilization (Eastern Meetings) and finally the region itself (the East). This latter was (and still is) a space of intense contentious politics with various forms and repertoires. Held in 1967, in various Kurdish cities, Eastern Meetings (Dogu Mitingleri) reveal a mostly neglected alternative political agenda by the Kurdish contenders who imagined and reconstructed a different ‘East’ in their protests and actions against ethno-nationalist suppression and exploitation by the Turkish state elite and dominant classes. I argue that the East as a Kurdish region as we know it today owes its symbolic meaning as much to the place- making collective actions of this generation of activists as it does to

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