Kurdish Issue on Turkish Field

Imagining peace in a conflict environment: Kurdish youths' framing of the Kurdish issue in Turkey

Drawn from focus groups composed of fifty-five Kurdish young people in Diyarbakır, Başer and Çelik’s article concerns the young Kurds’ description of the Kurdish issue in Turkey and their visions of peace. In recognition of their social and political agency, the article focuses on the Kurdish young people’s framing of both the conflict and peace, based on their individual everyday observations ...

3 The Kurdish issue and levels of ontological security

Turkish-Kurdish Conflict: An Ethno-Symbolist Exploration of Turks’ and Kurds’ Territorial Homeland Claims

turkish-israeli relations and their implication on iranian national security

this dissertation has six chapter and tree appendices. chapter 1 introduces the thesis proposal including description of problem, key questions, hypothesis, backgrounds and review of literature, research objectives, methodology and theoretical concepts (key terms) taken the literature and facilitate an understanding of national security, national interest and turkish- israeli relations concepts...

Sorani Kurdish versus Kurmanji Kurdish: An Empirical Comparison

Resource scarcity along with diversity– both in dialect and script–are the two primary challenges in Kurdish language processing. In this paper we aim at addressing these two problems by (i) building a text corpus for Sorani and Kurmanji, the two main dialects of Kurdish, and (ii) highlighting some of the orthographic, phonological, and morphological differences between these two dialects from ...