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People, Place, and Region

The “Life” of the State: Social Reproduction and Geopolitics in Turkey's Kurdish Question

Pages 1176-1193 | Received 01 Oct 2015, Accepted 01 Apr 2016, Published online: 17 Jun 2016

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