This book examines modalities for the recognition and political participation of minorities in plurinational states in theory and in practice, with a specific reference to the Republic of Turkey and the resolution of the Kurdish question. Drawing on the experience of Spain and Eastern Europe and other recent novel models for minority accommodation, including the Ottoman experience of minority autonomy (the Millet System), the volume brings together researchers from Turkey and Europe more broadly to develop an ongoing dialogue that analytically examines various models for national minority accommodation. These models promise to protect the state's integrity and provide governmental mechanisms that satisfy demands for collective representation of national communities in the framework of a plurinational state.

Ephraim Nimni is Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published widely on minority rights,models of national self-determination that do not require separate nation states, multiculturalism and the applicability of the national cultural autonomy model to contemporary multination states, and on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Elçin Aktoprak was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey, until she was dismissed as per the emergency decree in February 2017. Her research interests are theories of nationalism, minority issues in Europe, the Kurdish question, conflict resolution and peace studies.

Autorentext

Ephraim Nimni is Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published widely on minority rights, models of national self-determination that do not require separate nation states, multiculturalism and the applicability of the national cultural autonomy model to contemporary multination states, and on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Elçin Aktoprak was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Turkey, until she was dismissed as per the emergency decree in February 2017. Her research interests are theories of nationalism, minority issues in Europe, the Kurdish question, conflict resolution and peace studies.

Inhalt

1. Democratic Nation States and the Antinomies of Minority Representation: The Impact on the Turkish Republic

Ephraim Nimni

2. Re-Politicizing Non-Territorial Autonomy

Zafer Ylmaz Ahmet Murat Aytaç

3. Democratic Autonomy as a Means of Conflict Resolution and Self-Government?

Naif Bezwan

Part I: Autonomy Models in Europe and Their Importance for Turkey

4. National Cultural Autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe

David Smith, Federica Prina, Judit Molnar Sansum

5. Non-Territorial Autonomy and Western European Diversity Management Regimes: Lessons and Examples for the Turkish Republic

Sarah Hackett

6. A Nation-State or a Multinational State? National Conceptions, Minorities and Self-Determination in Spain

Lucía Payero López

Part II: Autonomy Discussions in Turkey and the Kurdish Issue

7. The Kurdish Opening in Turkey: Between Authoritarianism and Peace

Elçin Aktoprak

8. Are Non-Turkish Languages Banned in Turkey?

Derya Bayr

9. Kurdish Movement's Democratic Autonomy Proposal in Turkey

Cengiz Güne & Çetin Gürer

10. Territorial Autonomy and Democratization in Turkey: Prospects and Predicaments

Dilan Okçuolu

11. Mapping Rojava: Ideas of Democratic Confederalism and Non-Territorial Autonomy

Cemil Boyraz