Designated terrorists: the Kurdistan workers' party and its struggle to (re)gain political legitimacy [PDF]
, 2010 The European Union designation of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as an international terrorist organization has led to a profound distrust of the EU on the part of the PKK.
Casier, Marlies
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Language and Negotiation of Identities Among Young Kurds in Finland
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2013 This study looks at the role of language in negotiations of identity among a generation of Kurds, who have grown up in Finland. What strategies and emotional attachments does the use of different languages entail?
Mari Toivanen
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Home is Where the Heart Is? Forced Migration and Voluntary Return in Turkey's Kurdish Regions [PDF]
, 2014 What influences the decisions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home after prolonged displacement? This article investigates the attitudes of victims of forced migration by analysing survey data on Kurdish displaced persons and returnees ...
Loizides, Neophytos G. +2 more
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THE ESCALATION OF MIDDLE EASTERN KURDISTAN POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE 1980s
CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2022 This paper discusses the escalation of the Kurdish political struggle, which has spread to three Middle Eastern countries: Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. The conflict, which had a lengthy history, escalated in the 1980s.
Joko Santoso, Fitri Wardani
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Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of IraqiKurdistan [PDF]
, 2018 The Kurdistan Regional Government emerges out of the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq as a rare positive, providing both political stability and economic growth.However, the outward display masks a more complex domestic settlement where the trappings of the ...
Smith, Robert
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پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2023 Kurdish, like any other language, needs changed and exchange to survive and develop. However, any change in language is not acceptable and natural. The chaotic writing and speaking of Kurdish in these days, except some cases, result from the negligence ...
hossein Mikaeili
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Feature Selection for Kurdish-Persian Bilingual Speech: A Comparative Study of Formant Frequencies and MFCCs [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThis study examines the effectiveness of long-term formant frequency distributions (LTFDs), Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), and their combined application in distinguishing Kurdish-Persian bilingual speakers.
Maral Asiaee, Homa Asadi
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Construction of Evaluative Meanings by Kurdish-Speaking Learners of English: A Comparison of High- and Low-Graded Argumentative Essays [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2013 Academic writing ability is an important goal that learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL) try to attain.
Alireza Jalilifar, Ali Hemmati
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The analysis of Iran universities’ 2003-2004 entrance examination to detect biased items [PDF]
, 2009 Item bias or differential item function (DIF) refers to the situation in which the probability of correct responses to an item for examinees with equal ability measured by test but belong to different groups are not equal.
Abdul Ghafar, Mohamed Najib +1 more
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