Güneş Murat Tezcür

Güneş Murat Tezcür (English: Gunes Murat Tezcur) is a political scientist and the chair of Kurdish Political Studies Program[1] at the University of Central Florida, the first and only academic unit in North America dedicated to the study of Kurdish issues . His research revolves around Middle East politics with a specific focus on political violence,[2] Islamic politics, and democratization[3] in Iran and Turkey.[4] He has also extensively published on the Kurdish question. His best-known work is on the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey in which he explains why ordinary individuals take risk and join the insurgency. The work is based on an original dataset involving biographies of thousands of militants. He argues that the ethnic cleavages do not matter by themselves but they become politically salient when individuals from a particular ethnic minority face state repression and see their ethnicity and identity under threat.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Tezcur, Gunes Murat. "Biography". tezcur.org.
  2. ↑ Tezcür, Güneş Murat (2015). "Violence and Nationalist Mobilization: The Onset of the Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey". Nationalities Papers. 43 (2): 248–266.
  3. ↑ Tezcür, Güneş Murat (2012). "Democracy Promotion, Authoritarian Resiliency, and Political Unrest in Iran". Democratization. 19 (1): 120–140.
  4. ↑ Güneş Murat Tezcür, 2016. Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey: The Paradox of Moderation. Austin: University of Texas Press
  5. ↑ Güneş Murat Tezcür, 2016. "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Risks: Participation in an Ethnic Rebellion," American Political Science Review 110(2): 247-64.


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