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<p>This thesis seeks to examine the way key international actors (U.S.-E.U.) and the  Kemalists have shaped and currently influence Turkey's attitude toward its Kurdish  minority. The tough negotiations on Turkey's accession to the E.U. since 2005, and the  de facto establishment of an autonomous Kurdish entity in northern Iraq following the  2003 U.S. military intervention, have brought the Kurds' plight into the limelight. These  developments have involved the United States and the E.U. in the management of  Turkey's Kurdish question to an unprecedented extent. The research demonstrates that  Turkey's concessions to the Kurds in the 2000s have been moderate and that Ankara is  still reluctant to recognize the existence of a Kurdish minority that deserves special  rights. The research also reveals that, despite U.S. rhetoric concerning human rights and  the treatment of the Kurds, the United States, in line with the rationalists' approach,  keeps viewing Turkish-U.S. strategic partnership as vital to America's interests. The  E.U's socialization strategy seeks to reform Turkey's human rights regime, as the  Europeans have reached the conclusion that Turkey's Kurdish question is an issue of  denied cultural rights, as opposed to an issue of forced assimilation.
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<br>Subjects: Kurds; Turkey; Ethnic identity; Politics and government</div>
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Oikonomopoulos, Panagiotis</div>
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