Turkey's Kurdish Question Revisited; Perspectives of Kurdish Political Parties Towards the Kurdish Issue

Turkey's Kurdish Question Revisited; Perspectives of Kurdish Political Parties Towards the Kurdish Issue

The Kurdish question is one of the most complicated questions in Turkey. Since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, the issue has evolved and manifested itself differently due to certain socio-political conjunctures. Apart from that, the approaches towards the Kurdish issue have been done by the Kurdish political organizations which comprise different ideologies in their visions. This article aims to analyze the Kurdish question through the perspectives of the Kurdish political parties in Turkey. The article initially sheds light on the background of the issue in which its historical evolution is divulged. The viewpoints of the political parties are comparatively studied by the assessment of important aspects of their political opinions. Finally, the study is concluded by displaying some certain outcomes of the differentiations among their perspectives.

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