Resumen de A People Without a State: The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism/Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War/Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey: Transforming Ethnic Conflict
Gürbüz's focus, meanwhile, analyzes three different movements competing for Kurdish political loyalties in Turkey (the state from which half of the world's 25-35 million Kurds hail) - the secular, leftist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK, from the Kurdish Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê), the Sunni Islamist group Hizbullah (the Party of God, not to be confused with the Lebanese Shi'i group of the same name), and the Gülen movement (a group led by the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, which arose out of the Nur movement of Said Nursî, an Islamist modernist and reformer of Kurdish origin). In Iraq, Kurdish autonomy has been formally recognized by Baghdad and the international community, and the emergence of the first viable, modern Kurd- ish state appears distinctly possible in the near term.3 Although the situation for ethnic Kurds (as well as many others) in Turkey has worsened considerably during the past two years, this came after remarkable gains there in terms of recognition of the Kurds, their language and their culture
