ABSTRACT

This article studies the linkages between economic development, or lack thereof, in the predominantly Kurdish provinces in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia (ESA) and Turkey’s Kurdish question in the era of neoliberalism. It critically examines Turkey’s much lauded development trajectory and strategy in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, which, until very recently, was widely contended to have created auspicious conditions for the resolution of Turkey’s multifaceted Kurdish question. Its central argument is that there is a symbiotic relationship between the Kurdish question in Turkey and the peculiar form of underdevelopment witnessed in ESA, which is accurately captured by the notion of de-development.

摘要

本文研究了东部和东南部安纳托利亚（ESA）主要是库尔德省的经济发展与缺乏经济发展之间的联系，以及新自由主义时代土耳其的库尔德问题。它批判性地研究了二十一世纪第一季度土耳其备受赞誉的发展轨迹和战略，直到最近，土耳其一直被广泛认为为解决土耳其多方面的库尔德问题创造了有利条件。它的中心论点是，土耳其的库尔德问题与欧空局目睹的特殊形式的不发达形式之间存在共生关系，这正是不发达概念所准确把握的。