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Compliance with minority rights in Turkey (1999 - 2010) [PDF]
, 2011 1\. Introduction 5 2\. The EU and Minority Rights 7 2.1 Any Standards of the EU on Minority Rights? 7 2.2 The Demands of the EU from Turkey in Regard to Minority Rights 8 3\. Minority Rights in Turkey Prior to the Reforms 10 4\.
Yilmaz, Gözde
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2015 This article aims to explore the impact of the hemşehri identity on the second generation of Alevi youth living in Gazi district of Istanbul. It advances the following hypothesis: the second generation of gecekondu (shanty town) inhabitants consider the ...
Hakan Yücel
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Arabic dialects in Turkey — towards a comparative typology [PDF]
, 2010 In a workshop devoted to Turkish dialects it is my pleasure to present a short survey of the dialectology of a language which is also spoken on the territory of Turkey and offers considerable dialect variation, namely ...
Jastrow, Otto
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Understanding Current Alevism: A Field Research in Ankara, Turkey
Espergesia, 2022 Anthropology is a discipline that attempts to understand the human condition epistemologically. Concepts such as ethnicity or identity keep framing these studies. Alevism is one of those which is called ethnoreligious.
Hülya Doğan Elibüyük
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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“Being an Alevi in UK”: Construction of the Alevi Identity in Diaspora
Journal of Turkish Studies, 2023 Türkiye’deki siyasal ve kültürel gelişmelere bakıldığında, son yıllarda Alevilik ve Aleviler konusunun giderek artan bir öneme sahip olduğu tespit edilebilir. Bunun nedeni, Alevilerin kendi kültür ve inançlarına yönelik taleplerini artık (özellikle yurtdışında) daha yüksek sesle ifade etmelerinden kaynaklanmaktadır.
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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