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THE KEMALIST MOVEMENT AND THE KURDISH QUESTION (1919-1922) [PDF]
In 1919 General Mustafa Kemal, the future leader of the Turkish Milli (nationalist) movement, decided with his confederates to leave for Western Armenia, where more favorable military, strategic and political conditions existed to organize a resistance ...
Bayburdyan Vahan
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Fruitless Attempts? The Kurdish Initiative and Containment of the Kurdish Movement in Turkey [PDF]
AbstractFollowing the victory of the Kurdish party DTP (Demokratik Toplum Partisi, Democratic Society Party) in Turkey's southeastern provinces in the local elections of March 2009, Turkey witnessed the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, Justice and Development Party) government's Kurdish initiative, the closure of the victorious Kurdish party, and waves
Casier, M., Jongerden, J.P., Walker, N.
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The Core of Resistance: Recognising Intersectional Struggle in the Kurdish Women’s Movement [PDF]
The paper addresses the women’s movement in the Northern Syrian region known by Kurds as Rojava, a movement whose central role in building an autonomous political project has its roots in the Kurdish nationalist struggle, specifically that organised by ...
Bruna Ferreira, Vinícius Santiago
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The Kurdish Women’s Movement in Turkey and Its Struggle for Gender Justice [PDF]
This paper looks at the Kurdish women’s struggles for gender justice at the intersection of two diverse social movements in Turkey: the Kurdish national movement, on the one hand, and the Turkish feminist movement, on the other.
Ina Merdjanova
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Home is Where the Heart Is? Forced Migration and Voluntary Return in Turkey's Kurdish Regions [PDF]
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. +5 more
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Following the resumption of the armed struggle in southern Kurdistan in 1976, all Kurdish political parties paid great attention to the journalistic struggle, and in this context, the Kurdistan Democratic People’s Party after its establishment on ...
Ahmad Hamadameen Omar
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The Kurdish movement in post-1980 Turkey successfully mobilized Kurdish women. Themes related to gender equality have gained importance especially in late 1990s, when Kurdish women started to participate actively in the Kurdish movement.
Handan Çağlayan
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The Kurds in the U.S. Iraqi Policy in 1958–1960
Introduction. The article deals with the U.S. Middle East Policy of the Eisenhower Administration in 1958–1960 and determines the part the Kurdish Question played in it. Methods and materials. The study is based on the latest U.S.
Alexey I. Sennikov
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“Free Kurdistan”: Difficult Road to Self-Determination (1970s — XXI Century)
The period of the struggle of South (Iraqi) Kurdistan for self-determination, namely such events as its transformation into the center of the Kurdish national movement in the Middle East and the proclamation of the Kurdish Autonomous Region (KAR) in 1974
E. G. Vartanyan
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Kurdish Statehood and Islamist Political Concept
The article is devoted to the situation in the international Kurdish movement in the context of the growing popularity of Islamist ideas and concepts. For a long time, the leftist doctrine was considered to be the prevailing trend among the Kurds, but ...
S. V. Demidenko, R. I. Fainshmidt
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