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İbrahim Sirkeci. The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, 332 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Turgay Ünalan*
Affiliation:
Institute of Population Studies, Hacettepe University

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2007

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References

1 Sirkeci, İbrahim, The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), 46Google Scholar.

2 For instance, after reviewing such studies, Önder estimates that the Kurdish population in Turkey is around five million, within an estimated total population of 74 million as of the year 2005. See, Önder, Ali Tayyar, Türkiye'nin Etnik Yapısı, Halkımızın Kökenleri ve Gerçekler, 7 ed. (Ankara: Fark Yayınları, 2006)Google Scholar. See also, Mutlu, Servet, “Population of Turkey by Ethnic Croups and Provinces,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 12 (1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 İçduygu, Ahmet, “Türkiye-Avrupa Birliği İlişkileri Bağlamında Uluslararası Göç Tartışmaları,” Türk Sanayicileri ve işadamları Derneği, TÜSİAD-T/2006-12/427: 67Google Scholar.

4 A recently published book on internally displaced persons in Turkey reveals important insights into this aspect of the problem, based on qualitative fieldwork and a survey of the relevant international literature. See, Kurban, Dilek, Yükseker, Deniz, Çelik, Ayşe Betül, Ünalan, Turgay, and Aker, A. Tamer, “Zorunlu Göç” ile Yüzleşmek: Türkiye'de Yerinden Edilme Sonrası Vatandaşlığın İnşası (İstanbul: TESEV Yayınları, 2006)Google Scholar.