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Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars
Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 120-133, Summer 2025.Abstract This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security.
Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman
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American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 219-230, May 2025.Abstract Since the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, more than 215,000 people have been investigated for allegedly using ByLock, an encrypted‐message app. According to government officials and courts, the app was used exclusively by Fethullah Gülen's network, which the Turkish state classifies as a terrorist organization.
Onur Arslan
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The Role of French Intellectuals in the Development of Kurdish Studies and Kurdish Enlightenment
The Renaissance and Reform movements that started in Italy in the 15th century affected society and culture from all sides and opened the way for a new era, also called The Enlightenment. The French Revolution in 1789, which was based on the ideas of the
Keskin, Necat, Reşitoğlu, Sevda Orak
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Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests
, 2017 This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests.
Tugdar E.E., Al, Serhun
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Kurdish refugee communities : the diaspora in Finland and England [PDF]
This thesis describes the social organisation of Kurdish refugee communities and is a contribution to the theoretical discussion of the concept of diaspora. Field research methods were used in this comparative sociological study among Kurdish refugees
Wahlbeck, Östen
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Exit and voice revisited: the challenge of migrant media [PDF]
, 2008 This paper discusses the implications of transnational media production and diasporic networks for the cultural politics of migrant minorities. How are fields of cultural politics transformed if Hirschmann’s famous options ‘exit’ and ‘voice’ are no ...
Kosnick, Kira
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Language ideologies and identities in Kurdish heritage language classrooms in London [PDF]
, 2018 This article investigates the way that Kurdish language learners construct discourses around identity in two language schools in London. It focuses on the values that heritage language learners of Kurdish-Kurmanji attribute to the Kurmanji spoken in the ...
Yilmaz, B.
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Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper [PDF]
, 2022 This whitepaper addresses the prospect of creating a digital archive for the memorialization of mass atrocities (abbreviated herein as DAMMA). It is based on the proceedings of a virtual workshop held in October 2021 that addressed questions regarding ...
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Analyzing teachers’ perception for teaching Kurdish language
, 2017 The aim of this research is to analyze teachers? perception for teaching Kurdish language in terms of different variances. This studying is made in general survey model.
Ölmez, Azize Koksun
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