Kurds of Modern Turkey

Download or read book Kurds of Modern Turkey written by Cenk Saracoglu and published by Tauris Academic Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sixty years, Turkey has been experiencing a significant migration movement from Eastern Anatolia to its Western cities. However, since the 1980Æs, this migration movement has gained some qualitatively different characteristics as a result of the increasing insecurity of the Eastern regions of Turkey on the one hand, and the neoliberal transformation of the Turkish economy on the other. Whilst the former forced a large number of people from Eastern regions to flood into Western cities, the latter dragged them into difficult socioeconomic conditions in the post-migration process. One of the outcomes of this situation was the emergence of socio-economically and spatially segregated Kurdish communities in Western cities. --