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"This is not a traditional biography for a small group of academic experts on Turkish studies that seeks to cover an entire life. Rather the author will attempt to explain to the much broader arena of public and private non-experts who are still very interested in Turkey why Recep Tayyip Erdogan-the current populist, charismatic, but divisive president of Turkey and arguably the most consequential Turkish leader since Kemal Ataturk-was again reelected in May 2023 despite so many negative factors working against him such as a terribly faltering economy, deadly earthquake, and authoritarian reputation, among others"--

Many accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps, fearsome hurricanes, all-consuming fires. How can seeing the consequences of human impacts up close help us grasp how global warming affects us and our neighbors? This book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level—for wherever local happens to be.Michael M. Gunter, Jr. takes readers around the United States to bear witness to the many faces of the climate crisis. He argues that conscientious travel broadens understanding of climate change and makes its dangers concrete and immediate. Vivid vignettes explore the consequences for people and communities: sea level rise in Virginia, floods sweeping inland in Tennessee, Maine lobsters migrating away from American territorial waters, and imperiled ecosystems in national parks, from Alaskan permafrost to the Florida Keys. But Gunter finds inspiring initiatives to mitigate and adapt to these threats, including wind turbines in a tiny Texas town, green building construction in Kansas, and walkable urbanism in Portland, Oregon. These projects are already making a difference—and they underscore the importance of local action.Drawing on interviews with government officials, industry leaders, and alternative energy activists, Climate Travels emphasizes direct personal experience and the centrality of environmental justice. Showing how travel can help bring the reality of climate change home, it offers readers a hopeful message about how to take action on the local level themselves

Part 1. Kurdish studies. Kurdish studies in the United States / Michael M. Gunter ; Kurdish studies in Europe / Vera Eccarius-Kelly -- Part 2. Early Kurdish history. The Kurdish Emirates ; obstacles or precursors to Kurdish nationalism? / Michael Eppel ; An overview of Kurdistan of the 19th century / Hamit Bozarslan ; The development of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey from Mahmud II to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Serdar Akturk -- Kurdish culture. Ehmede Khani's Mem u zin : the consecration of a Kurdish national epic / Michiel Leezenberg -- Classical and modern Kurdish literature / Hashem Ahmadzadeh ; Calibrating Kurmanji and Sorani : proposal for a methodology / Michael L. Chyet ; Kurdish cinema / Bahar Simsek -- Economic dimensions. The oil imperative inthe KRG / David Romano ; De-development in eastern and southeastern Anatolia / Veli Yadirgi -- Part 5. Religion. Islam and the Kurds / Mehmet Gurses ; The inadequate Islamic grappling with the Kurdish issue / Christopher Houston ; The Jewish communities in Kurdistan within the tribal Kurdish society / Mordechai Zaken ; Yezidi baptism and rebaptism : resilience, reintegration, and religious adaptation / Tyler Fisher and Nahro Zagros -- Part 6. Geography and travel. The geopolitics of the Kurds since the first World War : between Iraq and other hard places / Michael B. Bishku ; Roaming Iraqi Kurdistan / Stafford Clarry -- Part 7. Women. Kurdish women / Anna Grabole-Celiker -- Part 8. The Kurdish situation in Turkey. The rise of the pro-Kurdish democratic movement in Turkey / Cengiz Gunes ; The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdish political parties in the 1970s / Joost Jongerden and Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya ; Turkey's Kurdish complexes and Its Syrian quagmire / Bill Park -- Part 9. The Kurdish situation in Iraq. The State We're in: Post-Colonial Sequestration and the Kurdish Quest for Independence since the First World War / Francis Owtram ; The disputed territories of Northern Iraq : ISIS and beyond / Liam Anderson ; The continuing problem of KRG corruption / Michael Rubin ; The Russian historical and political approach towards non-conventional independence of Iraqi Kurdistan / Kirill V. Vertyaev -- Part 10. The Kurdish situation in Syria. The Kurdish PYD and the Syrian Civil War / Eva Savelsberg ; The Evolution of the Kurdish struggle in Syria : between pan-Kurdism and Syrianization, 1920-2016 / Jordi Tejel ; The roots of democratic autonomy in Northern Syria / Rojava Michael Knapp -- PART 11. Iran. Iran and the Kurds / Nader Entessar -- Part 12. The Kurdish diaspora. The future of the Kurdish diaspora / Osten Wahlbeck ; Diasporic conceptions of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq / Barzoo Eliassi ; The Kurds in Germany / Vera Eccarius-Kelly ; The Kurdish diaspora in the UK / Desmond Fernandes

The historical origins of the Turkish-Armenian animosity -- What is genocide? -- Armenian terrorism in the 20th century -- Politicizing history -- Turkish counterterror and harassment? -- Rapprochement?

The A to Z of the Kurds covers the largest nation on Earth that does not have its own independent state. Scholars, government officials who are dealing with the Middle East and the Kurds, the news media, as well as the general reader will find this an accessible historical account about a people who are becoming increasingly important for the future of the geostrategic Middle East. Maps, a chronology of Kurdish history, an introductory essay on the Kurds, a dictionary containing several hundred entries on various aspects of the Kurdish experience, and an extensive bibliography comprise this vo