States of Dispossession : Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey

Traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region of Turkey through the lens of dispossessionThe military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades.Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of more than 45,000 civilians, militants, and soldiers, as well as causing thousands of casualties and disappearances.It has led to the displacement of millions of people and caused the forced evacuation of nearly 4,000 villages and towns.Suspended periodically by various cease-fires, the conflict has been a significant force in shaping many of the ethnic, social, and political enclaves of contemporary Turkey, where contradictory forms of governance have been installed across the Kurdish region. In States of Dispossession, Zerrin Özlem Biner traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region through the lens of dispossession.By definition, dispossession implies the a