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The Kurdish Peshmarga Force 1943-1975 [PDF]
, 2015 This article shows an area of key interest in modern-day of the Kurdish military ora well-known Peshmarga force those who face death history The Peshmarga have become anessential of Kurdish sociopolitical culture in the last 100 years The ...
Karwan Salih Waisy
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1563, Issue 1, September 2026.We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Lara S. Burchardt +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 363-372, September 2026.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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The Feminization of Pro-Kurdish Party Politics in Turkey: The Role of Women Activists [PDF]
, 2013 This study offers a case study of women’s political participation and representation in pro-Kurdish politics in Turkey since 1990s. Kurdish women have been double oppressed in Turkey due to both their ethnic identity and gender identity.
Tasdemir, Salima
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, 2019 Women have been at the forefront of many of the political and military struggles in the Kurdish Middle East, most visibly so since the start of the ‘Rojava Revolution’ in 2012.
Käser, Isabel
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Imagined Majorities: Perceived Group Size and Population Replacement Beliefs in Turkey
Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2026.ABSTRACT Population‐replacement beliefs are often treated as an intensified form of demographic misperception. This article instead argues that they comprise three distinct layers: perceptions of the current migrant population size, expectations of future growth and the attribution of deliberate political agency.
Evren Balta, Ezgi Elçi, Deniz Sert
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary +2 more
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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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An Alternative to Nationalism: The Kurdish Movement in Turkey [PDF]
, 2018 This paper will analyse the Kurdish movement’s embracement of democratic confederalist ideology from a security perspective. The purpose of this study is to understand why the Kurdish movement turned from ethno-nationalism to an anti-statist ideology.
Novellis, Andrea
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