Kurdish insurgency in Rojhelat: from Rasan to the Oslo Negotiations
dc.contributor.author | Stansfield, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Hassaniyan, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-24T13:17:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article sheds light on recent political developments in Rojhelat (Eastern/Iranian Kurdistan), focusing on the activities of Rojhelat’s leading political parties. This study argues that the existing situation in the area is a product mainly of the shift in Rojhelat’s mainstream political organisation, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, in its political and military approach to the Kurdish movement in Iran, popularly known as Rasan-i Rojhelat (the revival/sudden rise of Eastern Kurdistan). This has triggered a new, high level of conflict between Kurds and the Islamic Republic of Iran since 2015. Since the announcement of the Rasan, tit-for-tat clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga/guerrilla units and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been witnessed across Rojhelat. Analysis of the Kurdish question in Rojhelat reveals this development as multifaceted and complex, involving multiple actors and activities such as insurgency and collective protest from Kurdish civil society. This article focuses on two main developments: the methods and practices deployed by the Kurdish political parties of Rojhelat following the Rasan, and the sudden announcement of negotiations between representatives of the Iranian government and of four of Rojhelat’s political parties from 27-28 July 2019 in Oslo. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 3 May 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00263206.2021.1918116 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125218 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. | |
dc.subject | Conflict | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kurdish movement | en_GB |
dc.subject | Rasan-i Rojhelat | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kurdistan | en_GB |
dc.title | Kurdish insurgency in Rojhelat: from Rasan to the Oslo Negotiations | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-24T13:17:52Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0026-3206 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1743-7881 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Middle Eastern Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-12-23 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-12-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-03-24T12:48:00Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-06-10T13:19:11Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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