Mobilised Diasporas: Kurdish and Berber Movements in Comparative Perspective
Kurdish Studies, 2013 This study is a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh) - the two most prominent cases of ethno-national “imagining” among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s two main “non-dominant” ethnic groups.
Ofra Bengio, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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Kurds in Turkey: ethnographies of heterogeneous experiences Kurdish societies, politics, and international relations./ edited by Lucie Drechselová and Adnan Çelik. [PDF]
, 2019 Includes bibliographical references and index.This ethnographic volume features fresh research by junior scholars of contemporary Kurdish studies.
Drechselová Lucie, Çelik Adnan
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The evaluation of the effectiveness of counterterrorism policies on the PKK-inflicted violence during the democratization process of Turkey [PDF]
, 2015 This study tries to explore the relationship between soft-line governmental policy interventions of Turkey and the responses of the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party) by using time series data from 1995 to 2010.
Kula, Sedat, Ciftci, Irfan
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گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆFollowing the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy in July 1958 and the establishment of the Republic, Iraq experienced significant internal political transformations.
fakhir yousif
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do some members of an ethnic group support ethnic group rights while others do not? Drawing on social psychology, I argue that exposure to political violence shapes individual attitudes by deepening in‐group and out‐group distinctions and fostering expressive solidarity towards group rights. To test this argument, the study uses nationally
Oner Yigit
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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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Rethinking the national question: Anti-statist discourses within the Kurdish national movement [PDF]
, 2014 Why and under what conditions have the Kurds become agents of change in the Middle East in terms of democratization? Why did the Kurds\u27 role as democratic agents become particularly visible in the 1990s?
Yesiltas, Ozum
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الموقف الإقلیمی من الحرکة الکردیة المسلحة فی ترکیا 1984 [PDF]
دراسات أقليمية, 2005 لم تکن الحرکة الکردیة المسلحة التی بدأها حزب العمال الکردستانی فی ترکیا منذ آب 1984 شأنا داخلیا فحسب بل إنها أصبحت بصورة متزایدة قضیة سیاسة خارجیة أیضا من خلال تأثیرها فی علاقات ترکیا الدولیة والإقلیمیة.یدرس هذا البحث مواقف جیران ترکیا الشرق أوسطیین ...
خلیل مراد
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey [PDF]
, 2016 This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the existence of Kurds, calling them "mountain Turks," and ...
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