İlker Cörüt - 2015
This thesis aims to contribute to the discussions around the complicated role and value of social policy in nation-building processes in multi-ethnic contexts. The particular issue explored to achieve this goal is the striking improvement in healthcare provision in Hakkâri, a small Kurdish province in the southeastern corner of Turkey, between 2002 and 2013 and the unforeseen effects of this improvement. This thesis reveals that the on-going
improvement in healthcare provision in Hakkâri is part of a nationalist strategy implemented...