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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806903603321

Autore

Yildiz Kerim

Titolo

The European Union and Turkish accession : human rights and the Kurds / / Kerim Yildiz and Mark Muller ; foreword by Noam Chomsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pluto Press in association with Kurdish Human Rights Project, 2008

ISBN

1-84964-401-2

1-281-87887-1

9786611878870

1-4356-9097-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MüllerMark

ChomskyNoam

Disciplina

341.2422

Soggetti

Human rights - European Union countries

Human rights - Turkey

Kurds

European Union countries Foreign relations Turkey

Turkey Foreign relations European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Background -- 2 Turkey and the EU -- 3 Civil and Political Rights in Turkey -- 4 Cultural and Minority Rights in Turkey -- 5 Conflict in the Southeast -- 6 The International Dimension to the Conflict -- 7 The Military and the Islamist Movement -- 8 Internal Displacement -- 9 The EU and the Kurds -- 10 The Future of EU Accession -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the debate over Turkey's EU membership, focusing in particular on human rights issues relating to the country's Kurdish minority.