Essays about: "Kurdish politics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Kurdish politics.
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1. Vaccines for Votes: A case study examining the provincial disparities in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in Turkey
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : How do governments allocate scarce resources in the face of political survival? Do they allocate according to social equity or welfare criteria, or do political concerns play a role? Over the course of three decades, the literature on distributive politics documented numerous cases where governments distributed goods and services strategically for electoral gains. By building on the theories of distributive politics, this thesis aims to investigate provincial disparities in Covid-19 vaccine distribution in Turkey. READ MORE
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2. Kurdish Political Identity within the Realm of Turkish Politics and Kemalism
University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälleAbstract : Kurdish political identity, their quest for recognition has been an everlasting issue in the Turkish politics since the establishment of Turkish Republic (1923). When the Republic was building by the Republican elite during the single-party regime, the Turkish identity and Mustafa Kemal’s principles became constituent elements of Republican agenda which was ideologically aimed to be a modern nation-state that showed no tolerance to those who stayed out of its scope (i. READ MORE
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3. Instrumentalism of values and beliefs for ethno-nationalist militant movements: the case of PKK
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för MellanösternstudierAbstract : Myths, religious beliefs, and symbols are crucial components of ethnicity. PKK as a nationalist separatist armed organization- intensively uses them to construct a Kurdish identity which is compatible with its ideology as well as its objectives to mobilize Kurds and to galvanize their support. READ MORE
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4. A Case Study of the “Dağlıca Event” From Chaos to Election Victory : Media and Politics of Fear in the Political Communication of Terrorism in Turkey
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis aims to examine the complex relationship between the realm of politics and media during a ‘terrorist event’ in Turkey by focusing on the politics of fear and the power relations between two. The research uses Critical Discourse Analysis as a primary method to analyse political communication and media coverage of a ‘terrorist attack’ in Turkey. READ MORE
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5. Unrest as Incentive for Cooperation? : The Diversionary Peace Theory, Turkish-Syrian Relations and the Kurdish Conflict
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The aim of this paper is to investigate the link between internal and external conflict of states in the field of International Relations. More specifically, it is a critique of the Diversionary War theory, which argues that political leaders can instigate foreign conflict to divert the attention from domestic issues in order to secure their political positions. READ MORE
