Türkiye?deki Kürt hareketinin 1970?lerde mobilizasyon ve radikalleşme dinamikleri

This study aims to delineate causes behind the emergence and development of the Kurdish movement in Turkey with a special focus on the dynamics which led to the ideological and strategic-tactical radicalization of the Kurdish movement in the 1970s. While this study relies on the theoretical framework proposed by the contentious politics scholarship, methodologically, mechanism-process approach is pursued in order to grasp how interactions among multiple actors determined the flow of the movement from late 1950s to early 1980s. The significance of this study is twofold. On the one hand, a heavily understudied epoch of the Kurdish movement in Turkey is visited in order to configure what actually happened in the 1970s. On the other hand, this study shows that radicalization of the Kurdish movement happened in the 1970s as a counter argument against the mainstream understanding of the history of the Kurdish movement which presumes PKK?s beginning of guerrilla warfare (1984) as a rupture. Primary sources used in this study are in-depth interviews with Kurdish revolutionaries of the 1970s, political magazines of movement organizations and court proceedings of Diyarbakır Military Court-Martial.