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1. 1. Collaboration And Rescue : The role of the Jashes during the Anfal campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan 1988

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

   Author : Wirya Kurdyar; [2023]
   Keywords : Collaboration; Rescue; The Anfal Campaign; Jash; Kurdistan; Iraq;

   Abstract : The utilisation of collaboration and collaborationism as a strategy to address the Kurdish question in Iraq and the involvement of the collaborators in the perpetration of mass violence and genocide is a subject that has not been thoroughly investigated.  The objective of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying motivations that drove a specific subset of the Kurdish population to engage in collaboration and collaborationism with the Iraqi regime. READ MORE

3. 2. Turkey and crimes against humanity : A case study on Turkish treatment of civilian population

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Muminovic Fata; [2021]
   Keywords : crimes against humanity; Turkey; coup d’etat; Syrian civil war; Kurdish-Turkish conflict; human rights;

   Abstract : Despite the developments in the international arena to ensure and protect human rights, evidence from around the world showcase examples of organized and systematic violations of human rights in the form of war crimes, genocides, and crimes against humanity. Turkey is one of the countries that has shown decline in the last ten years when it comes to respect for human rights. READ MORE

4. 3. The last “terrorist” - Kurdish Marginalized Perspectives in the Turkish Social And Political Landscape

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Isabella Berfin Aslan; [2019]
   Keywords : Kurdish conflict understanding;

   Abstract : Despite the vast research on the protracted conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, recent battles in the South-East of Turkey have increased the anti-Kurdish attitudes and discourses in Turkish society. I argue that Kurdish marginalized individuals conflict understandings are silenced in the Turkish social and political landscape. READ MORE

5. 4. The Good, The Bad, and the Women

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Isabelle Persson; [2016]
   Keywords : News media; Women s agency; Imperialism; Syria; Critical discourse analysis;

   Abstract : This study focus on Western constructions of two categories of women – the female Kurdish fighters of the YPJ and the Western Muhaajirat – actively engaging in the Syrian conflict at the time of writing. Using Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis in combination with postcolonial feminist theory, I have scrutinized 12 news pieces selected from Swedish, British and North American influential news media houses, in order to provide a deeper understanding of the discourses underpinning these constructions. READ MORE

6. 5. Kurdish minority rights: What’s the problem represented to be?

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Anna Hagberg; Antonia Horodinca; Simone Hedelund; Ida Hillerup; [2013]
   Keywords : kurd; kurdish; human rights; policy; PKK; Öcalan;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate statements made by the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (the PKK), Abdullah Öcalan. The selection of material and scope were motivated by a rhetorical shift of strategy of the historically violent PKK, proposing cooperation as a solution to the suppression of the Kurdish minority within the Turkish nation-state. READ MORE