Turkey's Kurds and the quest for recognition: Transnational politics and the EU-Turkey accession negotiations

Ethnicities

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-25

  Casier, Marlies ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Discourse framing; Kurdish nationalism; Linguistic and ethnic minorities; Transnationalism; Turkey EU accession negotiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951824728     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796809353391     Document Type: Article

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