Results 41 to 50 of about 27,649 (226)

‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

Kurdish Relations with the Iraqi Government (March 11, 1970 - March 10, 1974) in the Iranian Official Newspapers

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
The years between (March/11/1970-March/10/1974) was an important period in the history of Kurdish relations with the Iraqi government. The announcement of the (March 11) declaration and the recognition of autonomy to the southern Kurds was a valuable ...
Shaho Rashid Mohammad , Saadi Uthman Haruti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE KURDES IN SYRIA: ORIGINS, FORMS AND INTERNATIONAL PROSPECTS

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2017
The article addresses the problem of self-determination of the Kurdish ethnos in Syria. Kurds are an indigenous people in this territory and for a long time lived within a single space within the Ottoman Empire. The artificial division of the Middle East
M. Dyurre
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining Variation in Support for Ethnic Group Rights: The Role of Forced Displacement and Conflict Proximity

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
wiley   +1 more source

Kurdish problem against a background of the war in Syria

Международная аналитика, 2017
Presently Kurdish motivation for the creation of a national state is showed more strongly than supreme power’s efforts on the centralization of Iraq and Syria.
Yu. Kudryashova
doaj   +1 more source

Lozan Barış Konferansı’nda Azınlıklar (Ekalliyetler) Meselesine Yönelik Görüşmelerde Kürt Sorunu

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023
Lozan Barış Konferansı, Türkler tarafından Millî Mücadele’nin başarı ile sonuçlandırılmasından sonra Müttefiklerin, 27 Ekim 1922 tarihli notasıyla Ankara ile İstanbul hükûmetlerini görüşmelere davet etmesiyle gündeme geldi.
Fuat Uçar
doaj   +1 more source

Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
wiley   +1 more source

Reassembling the political: the PKK and the project of radical democracy [PDF]

, 2013
One of the most important secular political movements in the Middle East, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) underwent a profound transformation in the 2000s.
Akkaya, Ahmet Hamdi, Jongerden, Joost
core   +1 more source

Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source