Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey's south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey's approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades…
Koerden, Turken en Alevieten. - Artikelen van Martin van Bruinessen (geboren in 1946), een Nederlandse antropoloog-socioloog.
Church planting among Muslims is not an easy task. After over twelve years of experience church planting in the Middle East, the most difficult aspect has been gathering believers together to form a church. Both evangelism and discipleship have been much easier by comparison. It…
This thesis examines the transformation of the Kurdish national struggle in Turkey from a political movement to a social movement. The Thesis will argue that the Kurdish national struggle during the Twentieth Century in Turkey was largely a failure, and that the emergence of the…