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The European Union and Turkish accession : human rights and the Kurds / Kerim Yildiz and Mark Muller ; foreword by Noam Chomsky.
Lippincott Library HC240.25.T8 Y55 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yildiz, Kerim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European Union--Turkey.
- European Union.
- European Union--Membership.
- Kurds--Turkey.
- Kurds.
- Turkey.
- Human rights--Turkey.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- The EU accession process will shape Turkey's future and, in particular, its potential to become a pluralist, democratic state with respect for international human rights. In this timely survey Kerim Yildiz and Mark Muller explain and analyse the process of accession focusing on the associated human rights obligations and the extent of their implementation in Turkey. The European Union and Turkish Accession addresses the variety of groups in Turkey who are affected by these negotiations, and details the background of the Kurdish people - the largest minority group in Turkey - and their relationship to the Turkish republic.
- Contents:
- Map of the area inhabited by Kurds ix
- The Kurds 4
- The Turkish Republic 12
- 2 Turkey and the EU 20
- The route to accession 20
- The opening of formal EU accession negotiations 24
- Turkey's EU bid in a wider political context 25
- Fulfilment of the Copenhagen Criteria for EU accession? 29
- 3 Civil and Political Rights in Turkey 39
- The pro-EU reform process 40
- Torture and 'zero tolerance' 42
- Freedom of expression, publishing and the media 50
- Civil society in Turkey 62
- Political participation 67
- 4 Cultural and Minority Rights in Turkey 77
- Cultural and linguistic rights 78
- EU reforms 90
- Minority rights standards in Turkey 93
- Definitional issues 98
- Substantive rights 102
- 5 Conflict in the Southeast 106
- Origins and development of the conflict 106
- Resolving the conflict 110
- The EU and the conflict in the southeast 117
- The Kurdish question from a Turkish perspective 122
- 6 The International Dimension to the conflict 126
- Turkey and Kurdistan, Iraq 127
- Turkish military activity in Kurdistan, Iraq 132
- Turkey, Iran and Syria 137
- 7 The Military and the Islamist Movement 144
- Secularists vs Islamists 145
- The Islamist movement, human rights and the Kurdish issue 147
- The AKP, Turkey and the Military 148
- 8 Internal Displacement 152
- Background to displacement 152
- Conditions and difficulties faced by internally displaced persons 156
- The government response to displacement 157
- State impediments to return 163
- The international response to internal displacement in Turkey 165
- 9 The EU and the Kurds 169
- Europe's role in solving the Kurdish question 169
- Assessment of the EU's approach 178
- The Kurdish perspective on EU accession 184
- 10 The Future of EU Accession 189
- Human Rights and EU Accession 191
- Implications of the Accession Process 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745327853
- 0745327850
- 9780745327846
- 0745327842
- OCLC:
- 228370367
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