The Kurd Issue in the Middle East

• Authors: Justyna Misiągiewicz

Title variants

PL

Kwestia kurdyjska na Bliskim Wschodzie

Abstracts

PL

Celem niniejszego opracowania jest analiza sytuacji i genezy mniejszości kurdyjskiej w wybranych państwach na Bliskim Wschodzie. Współcześnie wzrost kurdyjskiego nacjonalizmu stanowi wyzwanie dla stabilności i unitarności państw regionu. Jest to kwestia związana nie tylko z potrzebą tożsamości politycznej mniejszości kurdyjskiej i dążeniem do stworzenia własnego państwa, ale przede wszystkim z niedorozwojem gospodarczym i społecznym regionów kurdyjskich. Najwięcej Kurdów zamieszkuje na terytorium południowo-wschodniej Turcji. Państwo to od wielu lat boryka się z problemem terroryzmu Partii Pracujących Kurdystanu. Tym samym kwestię kurdyjską należy analizować, uwzględniając szereg uwarunkowań politycznych, kulturowych, społecznych i gospodarczych stanowiących specyfikę państw zamieszkałych przez tę mniejszość.

EN

This article surveys the developing situation of Kurdish minority in the Middle East and tries to predict the future of this ethnic group. The emergence of Kurd nationalism is gaining importance nowadays as a challenge for the stability and unity of the states in the region. The Kurdish question is not only connected with the political identity of the Kurds and their willingness to create their own state, but also with their economic weakness and poverty which has caused a violent ethnic conflict between government forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey. This paper is aimed at better understanding and analysis of the Kurdish issue in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, which are Kurds’ homelands in the Middle East.

Keywords

EN

Kurds; Middle East; Kurdistan Workers Party

PL

mniejszość kurdyjska; Bliski Wschód; Partia Pracujących Kurdystanu

• Publisher: Akademia Zamojska
• Journal: Facta Simonidis
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 127-149

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Justyna Misiągiewicz

• UMCS w Lublinie
• PWSZ w Zamościu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.56583/fs.233

Biblioteka Nauki

26850696