States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey

by Zerrin Ozlem Biner

The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as causing thousands of casualties and disappearances. It has led to the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns. Suspended periodically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081225175X
• ISBN13: 9780812251753
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"