Essays about: "kurds"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 26 essays containing the word kurds.

  1. 6. Cross-border Unity or Fragmentation of the Kurds - A Qualitative Content Analysis on the KRG’s and the PYD’s Views on National Identity and Statehood

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Maral Afsharian; [2020]
    Keywords : Kurds; KRG; PYD; Statehood; Independence; National Identity; Kurdistan. Kurder; statsskap; självständighet; nationell identitet; Kurdistan.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Med en befolkning på cirka 30 miljoner människor är kurderna den fjärde största etniska gruppen i Mellanöstern. Trots detta har kurderna inte sin egen självständiga stat vilket gör dem till en minoritetsgrupp i Turkiet, Irak, Iran och Syrien. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Zazas in Crisis: A qualitative study on the influence of the Turkish political discourse on the Zaza Identity

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

    Author : JOHANNA ASLAN; [2020]
    Keywords : Zaza; Turkey; Kurdish; identity; nationalism; ethnicity; minorities; exclusion;

    Abstract : Författaren till denna uppsats har under en fältresa till Turkiet gjort en undersökning om Zazas, en mellangrupp människor som ofta faller i den etniska kategorin kurder eller turk, och som där samlade essensiellt akademiskt innehåll och individuella åsikter från lokalbefolkningen som intervjuades. Skälen bakom försummelsen av Zazas och förtrycket mot dem orsakade av Turkiets nationalistiska diskurs utforskas och det lärs ut att när Zazas försummades sitt språk, hade de officiellt uteslutits från hela nationens samhällsstrukturer. READ MORE

  4. 8. 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. 9. Kurdish Political Identity within the Realm of Turkish Politics and Kemalism

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Lemi Caner Saridal; [2019]
    Keywords : Kurdish political identity; Turkish politics; Kemalism;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 10. Instrumentalism of values and beliefs for ethno-nationalist militant movements: the case of PKK

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

    Author : Ömer Faruk Aydemir; [2018]
    Keywords : Kurds; religion; Turkey; myths; the ethno-nationalist movements; PKK; ethnic symbols; Zilan; Kurdish politics; Sheikh Said; Newroz; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : 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