Kurdish Question in Turkey
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Using a nationally representative dataset from Turkey, we examined the effects of national identity, religious identity, religious practice, and intergroup contact on social distance towards disliked groups along ethnic (Turks vs. Kurds),... more
Oil corruption in Iraqi Kurdistan arose from US/UK and Turkish patronage systems and clientalism. This investigative paper examines how IOCs and other businesses began preparing the ground in northern Iraq to benefit themselves long... more
This study explores who Turkish citizens view as the Other, their perceptions, evaluations, and the degree of Othering of these groups in the private and public spheres. Drawing from varied political science and social psychology... more
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt... more
Türkiye, uzun yıllardan beridir çeşitli ideolojilerde ve yapılarda terör örgütleriyle çeşitli yoğunluklarda mücadele etmiş ve etmeye devam eden bir ülkedir. Kürdistan İşçi Partisinin de (PKK- Partîya Karkerên Kurdistanê) bu terör... more
Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing the state in the historical context of the international... more
Öz Kürt kadınlarının, modernleşmenin/demokratikleşmenin bir tezahürü olarak gösterilmesi hem aile, hem din/dindarlık hem de çocuk yetiştirilme tarzına uygun bir sosyolojik yapıyı barındırmaz. Çünkü Kürtlerin kadim tarihinden beri... more
Diviso tra Turchia, Siria, Iraq e Iran, il Kurdistan rappresenta probabilmente uno degli scenari geopolitici più caldi del Medio Oriente. È il territorio di un popolo, i curdi, che vanta più di trenta milioni di persone la più grande... more
In the world, most governments are faced with tough problems arising out cultural variation in their territories. The term Nationalism is quite modern, but it was play crucial role in the last century of human history. Nationalism is kind... more
Wendelmoet Hamelink. The Sung Home: Narrative, Morality and the Kurdish Nation. Leiden: Brill, 2016. (Review in Kurdish)
In-group and superordinate identities are key predictors for intergroup forgiveness, albeit with opposite effects. To investigate the identity-forgiveness relationship, we included perceived compatibility between in-group and... more
This article critically examines the role of Islamist state discourse and policies in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Academic works on Islamism often address settings where Islamist movements and political parties operate as anti-colonial... more
Conflict resolution features strongly as an objective of the European Union's foreign policy. In promoting this aim, the EU's geographical focus has rested primarily in its beleaguered backyard to the south and to the east. Taking a... more
Türkiye'de neoliberal hegemonyanın inşası, diğer unsurların yanı sıra, tabandaki grupların desteğini seferber etmek için birbiriyle yarışan siyasi aktörler arasındaki mücadelelerin yönü ve kapsamına bağlı olmuştur. 1980'lerde başlayan... more
Der vorliegende Text behandelt das Phänomen der sozialen Ungleichheit im Bildungssystem - also des Abschneidens je nach Herkunft - unter den Bedingungen von hoher Vielsprachigkeit. Ein solcher Blick auf Ungleichheit verbindet die... more
ABSTRACT This dissertation is concerned with the sufistic hermeneutics of mahwi’s poem. It is an attempt to read his Kurdish poems, amid theoretical reading of Islamic interpretation and western. Thus some unclear textual meaning can be... more
This thesis aims to explore the making of Kurdish publishing in Turkey by asking how that field emerged and has been developed under the conditions inimical to the use and reproduction of Kurdish literary language. My exploratory journey... more
Introduction to the recently restructered Mesopotamian Ecology Movement which acts in North Kurdistan on ecological subjects. In the movement are people active with different backgrounds. In 2015 it has become stronger than never before.... more
In the certain stages of the history, Kurds have been deprived from the right of self-determination, and oppressed by the different nations. The problematic case of the Kurds with the concepts of " nation " , " nationalism " , and "... more
The role and status of the various Kurdish groups in Iraq, Iran. Turkey and Syria are shaping the conflicts which continue in these nations. Historically the Kurdish national territory has been split among the four countries and... more
An inquisitive and pertinent mail sent by a reader let me draw the conclusion that more light should be shed on issues discussed in my earlier article entitled "Erdogan: Turkey’s Bani Sadr in a Sinister ‘Second Republic’?". I publish here... more
Commentators, including myself, forecast a deepening crisis in Turkey and the wider Kurdish region-unless 'peace' talks resume and the sustained assault on the pro-Kurdish HDP's members and supporters cease. Conversely, the Turkish... more
Bu yazilar 8, 15 ve 22 Temmuz 2018'de Yeni Yaşam Gazetesi'nde yayinlanmistir.
Recently, Turkey and the U.S. signed an agreement for Turkey to join the coalition’s fight against the Islamic State (IS, a.k.a. ISIS/ISIL). As part of this agreement an IS-free zone will be created in Syria, but it is not clear yet... more
Мировое сообщество в течение десятков лет подвергалось и подвергается непрерывной промывке мозгов, когда утверждается, что отсутствие приемлемого решения арабо-израильского конфликта является основным, чуть ли не единственным... more
Tarihsel Süreç içerisinde Kürdistan coğrafyasında Pek çok Emirlik kurulmuş bu emirlikler Kürt Tarihini, coğrafi yapısını ve siyasi hayatını oluşturmuştur, bu Emirliklerden Botan Emirliği, Etki alanı bugünkü Kuzey Kürdistan'da yer alan... more
A resource of academic, journalistic, video, and primary evidence of Turkey's state sponsorship of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) and other terrorist groups
- by Martin van Bruinessen
- Kurdish Studies, Kurdish Question in Turkey, Kurdish Nationalism, Visual Research, Visual Framing, War Images, Reporting in conflicts and wars, media in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, Political Communication with emphasis on the framing of elections and candidates, political crisis, revolutions.