Saraolu deals with the ways in which the Kurdish migrants living in the western cities of Turkey have been identified in middle-class discourse by certain pejorative labels and stereotypes. He argues that this new Kurdish image demonstrates the ethnicization of longstanding anti-migrant sentiments in...
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict have fostered peace hopes in Turkey but the precarious situation of Kurdish forces in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about the path ahead. Abdullah ...
In 2006 there was renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels and outbreaks of civil unrest involving Kurds; an offshoot of the PKK also mounted bomb attacks in a number of Turkish cities. In 2006, and again in 2007 and 2009, the PKK unilaterally declared cease-fires, but Turkey rejected them, ...
In a book dated 2002, there is a map of the Mediterranean region which identifies areas where seasonal movements of sheep flocks still take place. Turkey figures prominently, but only the western part of the country is mentioned. From the eastern part, the Kurdish region, nothing seems to fi...
In a country split evenly between Mr Erdogan’s supporters and his opponents, the Kurds have become kingmakers—as they proved in local elections two years ago, handing control of Turkey’s biggest cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, to an opposition alliance. “If you want to be in power...
The paper dwells on an extensive field work conducted in two cities presided by PDP, Van and Diyarbakir which are located in Turkey's Kurdistan. I conclude that mentalities of local governance of the central government and the Kurdish movement differ discursively and symbolically. These mental...
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It was during that period that young people from the rural areas of the cities of Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş in the southeast of Turkey, who suffered from many deprivations such as economic and political problems, tried desperately to get a ticket to Japan (Ahmadian, 2020). Young people ...
The Kurds, a Muslic ethnic group of 18-20 million people living primarily in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, are among the most significant non-state nations who have been seeking autonomy for several decades. This original article examines the Kurdish movement in each of the three countries, outlinin...
Turkey's Floundering EU Candidacy and Its Kurdish Problem Crisis in Kirkuk: The Ethnopolitics of Conflict and Compromise. By AndersonLiam and StansfieldGareth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 312p. $59.95 cloth. - Volume 9 Issue 1 - Michael M. Gunter...