Title: THE REGIONAL KURDISH QUESTION IN A GLOBAL WORLD: MENTALITIES, POLICIES AND GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS
Author: YASİN SUNCA
Translated by: Sebastian Heuer
Language of Translation:
Place of publication: Istanbul
Publisher: Hakikat Adalet Hafıza Çalışmaları
Release date: 2022

Although the Kurdish question inarguably is a regional issue, regardless of whatever perspective we may take, it has invariably been considered as an internal matter of states. Even efforts to factor in regional dynamics have largely been limited to contemplating the “outside’s influence on the inside.” This report suggests that if we want to understand the Kurdish question it is necessary for us to consider its historicality in conjunction with its geopolitical, regional and global dimensions and take into account not only the political actors but also the subjects and social segments affected by it. From this vantage point, the report discusses the internal dynamics of the “Kurdish political space” and their transformation since the beginning of the 2000s, while also addressing the geopolitical dimensions of this transformation.[1]