A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey

Mehmet Kurt’s article “A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey” was published in the Spring 2020 edition of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Kurt’s article examines the transformation of the Kurdish Hizbullah as it evolved from an illegal underground organization to a social and political movement influent in the Kurdish Turkey during the 2000s. Kurt analyses the strategies of reorganization and mobilization, as well as the political and social impact of this reconfiguration, in order to focus in on what he calls “the Kurdish question and the ambivalent approach to Kurdish identity and martyrdom promoted by the political leaders and supporters of the movement.”

More about his article can be found here.

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