Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernisers?: The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey

Protests worldwide followed the capture and trial of the Kurdish nationalist leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. Millions of people are now aware of the long fight by Icalan's PKK guerillas in Turkey. But where does the PKK come from? What are its aims? Who supports it? What will its future be without ™calan to guide it? And, most important of all, is there now a real prospect for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey and a democratic future that recognises the cultural plurali…