Activists in Office
Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey

Nicole F. Watts sheds light not only on the particular situation of Kurds in Turkey, but also on the challenges, risks, and potential benefits for comparable movements operating in less-than-fully democratic contexts.

Watts is associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Introduction: Other Routes of Resistance 1

Early Routes: Conditions of Kurdish Electoral Mobilization
2
New Collective Challengers: The Institutional Trajectory of Turkey's First Pro-Kurdish Party
3
Resources of the System
4
Characteristics of Coercion: Obstructing Access to Resources
5
Producing Competing Truths
6
Creating a New Kurdish Subject
Conclusions: Assessing a Challenger's Impact
Notes
References
Index