199 - MERIP

Summer 1996

Middle East Report 199 surveys developments in Turkey in the 1990s, including the war against the Kurds in the southeast.


From the Editors (Summer 1996)
Articles
The Crisis of the Turkish State	Ertugrul Kurkcu
Turkish Islam and National Identity	Sami Zubaida
Turkey’s Elections and the Kurds	Hamit Bozarslan
Turkey’s Death Squads	Martin Van Bruinessen
“Should I Shoot You?”	Aliza Marcus
Turkey and the European Union	Ronnie Margulies
Turkish Women and the Welfare Party	Nukte Devrim-Bouvard
Document: Forced Evictions and Destruction in Villages in Turkish Kurdistan
Special Reports
“We Are a Civil Party with an Islamic Identity”	Karim El-Gawhary
Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant	Graham Usher
UN Impasse in the Western Sahara
Column: America’s Sawt Al Sa’ud	Al Miskin
Reviews
A New World Order, A New Marcel Khalife	Elliott Colla, Robert Blecher
Singerman, Avenues of Participation	Clarisa Bencomo
In Memoriam
Marion Farouk-Sluglett	Isam al-Khafaji, Joe Stork

Letters (Summer 1996)
Editor’s Picks (Summer 1996)	The Editors