I. Background
1. The Kurds
2. The Turkish Republic
II. Turkey and the EU
1. The route to accession
2. The opening of formal EU accession negotiations
3. Turkey's EU bid in a wider political context
4. Fulfillment of the Copenhagen Criteria for EU accession?
III. Civil and Political Rights in Turkey
1. The pro-EU reform process
2. Torture and 'zero tolerance'
3. Freedom of expression, publishing and the media
4. Civil society in Turkey
5. Political participation
IV. Cultural and Minority Rights in Turkey
1. Cultural and linguistic rights
2. EU reforms
3. Minority rights standards in Turkey
4. Definitional issues
5. Substantive rights
V. Conflict in the Southeast
1. Origins and development of the conflict
2. Resolving the conflict
3. The EU and the conflict in the southeast
4. The Kurdish question from a Turkish perspective
VI. The International Dimension to the conflict
1. Turkey and Kurdistan, Iraq
2. Turkish military activity in Kurdistan, Iraq
3. Turkey, Iran and Syria
VII. The Military and the Islamist Movement
1. Secularists vs Islamists
2. The Islamist movement, human rights and the Kurdish issue
3. The AKP, Turkey and the Military
VIII. Internal Displacement
1. Background to displacement
2. Conditions and difficulties faced by internally displaced persons
3. The government response to displacement
4. State impediments to return
5. The international response to internal displacement in Turkey
IX. The EU and the Kurds
1. Europe's role in solving the Kurdish question
2. Assessment of the EU's approach
3. The Kurdish perspective on EU accession
X. The Future of EU Accession
1. Human Rights and EU Accession
2. Implications of the Accession Process.