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Re-assessing the Genocide of Kurdish Alevis in Dersim, 1937-38
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 2020 This article discusses a century-long denial of historic genocide targeting Kurdish Alevis in Turkey. Firstly, I argue that the state-sponsored killings and forced displacements that occurred in Dersim in 1937-38 constitute genocide.
Dilşa Deniz
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"I miss my village" forced Kurdish migrants in Istanbul and their representation in associations [PDF]
, 2005 Metropolises in Turkey like İstanbul, Ankara, and İzmir along with the cities in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia received a significant number of internally displaced Kurds (hereinafter referred to as Kurdish IDPs) in the late 1980s to the 1990s.
Celik, Ayse Betul, Çelik, Ayşe Betül
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The Saz as a Mode of Understanding Alevism
Voices, 2017 An attempt to give insight into who Alevis are and what Alevism is, only further demonstrates the complexities that arise in doing so. However, this ambiguity is essential to discuss in terms of what this paper seeks to answer and that is: How can we ...
Iris Sibel Muradoglu
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The Alevi and questions of identity, including violence and insider/outsider perspectives
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2006 Alevilik is the second largest religious movement in Turkey after Sunnite Islam. The Alevi worship Ali and the twelve Imams of his family. Ali is more or less deified and therefore Alevis are considered as being ghulat (‘exaggerated’, ‘extremist’) and ...
Tina Hamrin-Dahl
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Le dede moderne : évolution des paramètres de l’autorité religieuse de l’alévisme dans la Turquie contemporaine [PDF]
, 2006 L’article décrit, en la replaçant dans son contexte, l’évolution moderne du leadership et de la structure d’autorité dans l’alévisme turc. Au siècle dernier, à la faveur des processus d’urbanisation et de sécularisation, l’alévisme turc a subi de ...
Dressler, Markus
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2014 At the time Tambar wrote The Reckoning of Pluralism, there was a brief opening in Turkish political life during which ethnic and sectarian plurality was both imaginable and debatable.
Kimberly Hart
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Examining prejudice reduction through solidarity and togetherness experiences among Gezi Park activists in Turkey [PDF]
, 2016 Prejudice reduction research has focused on reducing negative regard as a means to improve relations between various groups (e.g., religious, ethnic, political).
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THE ALEVI / ALAWITE FACTOR IN TURKEY - SYRIA RELATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE SYRIAN CRISIS [PDF]
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2019 The Syrian civil war exacerbated sectarian divisions between the Alawite-ruled Syrian government and Syria's Sunni population, straining also the relations between the Sunni majority and Alawite and Alevi minorities of the neighboring Turkey.
Mkrtich Karapetyan
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European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2012 The emergence of Alevi associations in Cyprus is a result of the partition of the island in 1974 in a “Turkish” and a “Greek” part, and the following settlement of roughly 100.000 migrants from the Turkish Republic in northern Cyprus.
Beatrice Hendrich
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The meaning of city living for rural migrant women and their role in migration: the case of Turkey [PDF]
, 1997 Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article explores the meaning of city living for Turkish women and the role women play both in the migration process and in establishing their lives in the city.
Erman, T.
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