HIST 46 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, Kurdistan Workers' Party
Document Summary
Beginning of 1990s gradual shift to democracy. Early 1990s true path party (center right party) First female pm tansu ciller: significant shift that turkish had a female head of state. Rise of islamic parties, religious schools as means of social advancements: small-town turkey is dominated by predominately male businessmen and are religious and conservative. Welfare party wins 21% of vote in 1995, nechmettin erbakan pm of coalition govt: was deemed to islamic so the army threatened a coup, erbakan stepped down. Kurds 10-12 million, 20% of population of turkey: concentrated in southeast part of turkey, significant numbers in istanbul. 1984 formation of kurdish workers party (pkk: it is an insurgent group that wanted autonomy within turkey. By late 1990s 2,300 kurdish villages destroyed, 2 million kurds disappeared: was being problematic b/c kurds weren"t powerful to stop turkey and turkey didn"t have the means to stop insurgent attacks. Desire to enter eu held back by human rights violation.
