This thesis investigates how the historical Kurdish Question in Turkey is negotiated, constructed, and intervened in through the relationship between Facebook’s content moderation and the Turkish State’s national agenda. In this sense, I situate Facebook as a globally operative,…
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This dissertation explains the recent transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which income-based social assistance policies have supplanted employment-based social security policies. This transformation is part of a global neoliberal turn which has replaced the welfare …
This PhD study examines the consequences of modernity and modernisation for Kurdish-Iranian society in the twentieth century. It identifies a dual process of socio-economic transformation and homogenisation of culture and identity, the dialectics of which (re)formed the economic…
This study explores the evolution of Turkey's grass-roots human rights movement over a period of three decades, paying particularly close attention to inter-organizational relations between Islamist and secular organizations. It asks, why and under what conditions did seemingly …
The dissertation examines the rise of radical Islamist and Kurdish movements in Turkey and considers their possibility to moderate and integrate into plural political systems. In contrast to popular views, ethnic or religious demands are not always superior to economic interests…
This dissertation focuses on the interrelationships between national identities, discourses, and communication technologies in the context of Kurdish people. Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study investigates the ways Kurds us…
Before and after the demise of the Ottoman and Persian Empires and division of Kurdish territories into four main states, the Kurds have attempted to preserve their identity by differentiating themselves from the dominant ethnic group. Kurds are Kurds because they are not Arabs,…
This dissertation undertakes a transnational analysis of conflict-induced displacement of Kurds from Turkey, by examining both their internal displacement within Turkey, as well as their external displacement to Europe as refugees. It conceptualizes displacement as a form of sta…
This dissertation analyzes everyday talk about livelihoods, or about the challenges of work and getting by, among displaced Kurds in the city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey. Over the past two decades, Diyarbakir has grown dramatically with the influx of tens of thousands o…
This dissertation asks how practices of security and development intersect in the operation of political power in conflict and post-conflict zones. Recent investment in gendered development as a mechanism of conflict mitigation mark a historic shift in the security imperatives o…
Since 2003 Iraq has struggled dealing with a new type of federal constitutionalism and engaged in three separate elections. It is expected that this federalism will encompass all the ethnic and religious groups and create more peace and stability between these groups. One of my …
This project provides a comprehensive analysis of the Kurdish ethno-nationalist movements of Iran. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Kurdish experts, leaders and members of major Iranian Kurdish organizations, and archival data: First, it will be argued that the level of polit…
Baas Partisi, Arap dünyasında ilk ideolojik parti olarak Suriye'de doğdu ve Arap politik düşüncesinde büyük bir boşluğu doldurdu. Baasçılar, bir ideoloji oluşturmak ve Suriye ve diğer Arap devletlerinde pek çok kişiyi çekmek için etkili bir ideoloji üretmeyi başardılar. Baasçı A…
The Iraqi Kurdistan region claims that it is a close ally of the United States and supports its agenda in the Middle East. Therefore, to know what issues, events and sources the U.S. mainstream newspapers use to portray the region is essential. It's important for the Kurdish peo…
Through an analysis of the Iraq’s engineered genocides against Kurds during the years of Saddam Hussein’s regime, this work aimed to reveal the weakness of the current political and social situation in Iraq. The purpose was to offer an overview of the dangers posed by the curren…
This thesis focuses on various aspects of the social and political history of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar ( Iraq)during the British mandate. When relevant to the history of mandatory Sinjarit also deals with the neighbouring Yazidicommunity of Iraqi Shaikhan. Chapters I and…
This thesis is a study of national integration policies as a method of conflict resolution. It assumes that a nation can be multiethnic and integrative, rather than ethnically homogeneous and exclusive. Instead of seeking outright separatism for ethnonational conflicts, it explo…