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Jan 2022
47m 42s

Dilek Kurban on Turkey, the Kurdish ques...

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
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Dilek Kurban, Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute and adjunct faculty at the Hertie School in Berlin, on “Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict” (Cambridge University Press). Become a member to support Turkey Book Talk. Members get a 35% discount on all Turkey/Ottoman ... Show More
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