No Justice for Kurds: Turkish Supremacy and Kurdophobia

Mehmet Kurt

doi:10.1353/sor.2021.0052

No Justice for Kurds: Turkish Supremacy and Kurdophobia

Mehmet Kurt

Department of Law and Criminology

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Abstract

The Kurds, as the world’s largest stateless nation, are subjected to extreme violence, discrimination, hostility, and racism in contemporary Turkey. I formulate this around the concept of Turkish supremacy and explain how this supremacy is historically rooted, institutionally reinforced, and socially reproduced in the racist habitus of Turkey. Kurdophobia is integral to Turkish supremacy, which needs to invoke racism against Kurds to sustain its position.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	923-947
Number of pages	25
Journal	Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume	88
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2021.0052
Publication status	Published - 24 Mar 2022

Keywords

Turkish Supremacy
Kurdophobia
racism
Political Violence
DISCRIMINATION

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