Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Hirschler, Konrad

doi:10.1080/714004406

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“…5 While most of the participants had migrated from other areas of Turkey, three of the younger women and one of the older women had been born in Istanbul to migrant parents. Most of the participants were Sunni Muslims, but 12 of the women were Kurdish-speaking Alevis, members of the heterodox Islamic community that comprises somewhere between 10 and 40 percent of the Turkish population and includes Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, and Azeri speakers (Hirschler 2001). 6 While we might conveniently refer to the participants as ''Kurdish migrant women,'' the purpose of this study is not to present ethnicity, gender, and migrant status as discreetly bounded categories of identity or experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While most Kurds in Turkey practice Sunni Islam, approximately 30 percent of Turkey's Kurds are Alevi Muslims. Kurds (Kurmanji and Zaza speakers) comprise an estimated 10 to 30 percent of Turkey's total Alevi population (Andrews 1989;Hirschler 2001).…”

Section: Turkish Citizenship and Kurdish Identity: The Logics Of Altementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars of Kurdish nationalism in Turkey have emphasized the effects of state policies, the relative economic deprivation of the region, and the rise of a new Kurdish intellectual elite, both in Turkey and abroad, in the construction of Kurdish identity in the late twentieth century (Hassanpour 1998;van Bruinessen 1998;White 1998;Hirschler 2001). Consistent with Kemalist ideals of nationalism and citizenship, Turkey has historically viewed emergent claims to Kurdish linguistic, cultural, or political rights as sources of instability and threats to national unity (Rygiel 1998;Ergil 2000;Yavuz 2001).…”

Section: Turkish Citizenship and Kurdish Identity: The Logics Of Altementioning

confidence: 99%

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“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Secor

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

190

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The citizenship ideal of the Turkish republic has taken shape through the logics of alterity, defined by and through both a paradoxical understanding of Turkishness and the rise of Kurdish identity politics. Citizenship in Turkey represents an uneasy marriage between ethnic and civic conceptions of national identity and belonging. This article develops an analysis of citizenship and everyday spatial practice in Istanbul through the narratives produced in focus group discussions with Kurdish‐identified, migrant women. Their stories explore how citizenship, as a hegemonic process that assembles identities, fixes power relations, and disciplines space, is encountered and contested through the spatial practices of everyday life, through what Michel de Certeau calls the tactics of “making do.” Viewing dominant discourses and practices of citizenship as techniques of spatial organization (“strategies,” in de Certeau's terms), this study focuses on how participants narrate their own spatial stories of resistance to and appropriation of dominant codings of “the citizen” and “the stranger” in the Turkish context. This analysis brings to the fore the ways in which focus group participants encounter discourses and practices that position them as strangers and citizens, their use of tactics of anonymity and strategies of identity as they traverse city spaces, and the moments in which they situate themselves as political subjects in schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces in Istanbul, through the spatial enactment of the strategies of citizenship and the tactics of everyday life.

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Section: Turkish Citizenship and Kurdish Identity: The Logics Of Altementioning

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Section: Turkish Citizenship and Kurdish Identity: The Logics Of Altementioning

confidence: 99%

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“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Secor

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

190

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“…Southern Mexico and Southeastern Turkey, where these both groups dominantly populate, have been the most economically backward regions of their national territories. In fact, the roots of Kurdish uprising have been the leftist movements in the 1960s that preached the underdevelopment of Kurdish regions in Turkey (Hirschler, 2001). Moreover, Bob puts that 'Southern Mexico has long been one of the country's most backward regions economically, socially, and politically' (2005, p. 120).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…The roots of the PKK's Marxist-Leninist formation goes back to the period of class consciousness and politics in the 1960s and the 1970s where many politicized Kurds in urban centers were involved in leftist movements until the military coup in 1980 (Gunes, 2012;Hirschler, 2001). During the 1960s, the discourse of pro-Kurdish political movement basically emphasized the underdevelopment and economic backwardness of the Kurdish regions of Turkey.…”

Section: From 'Mountain Turks' To the Kurds Of Turkey: The Pkk And Thmentioning

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Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective

2014

Globalizations

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The purpose of this article is to explore why and how some local armed uprisings are able to go global with a transnational image of 'social justice' while others fail to build such image despite becoming transnational. The cases to be analyzed in the article are the proKurdish mobilization in the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey and the pro-Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) movement in Mexico. In explaining the relative success of the latter, the study seeks to make connections with the globalization literature in general and the transnational social movement literature in particular. Particularly, the article focuses on the ability of social movements to market their causes in international arena with a good image. Overall, this study lays out several key strategic differences between the two movements such as the holding and the use of arms, duration of armed resistance, and the leadership and organizational structure to unpack why some social movements are more successful to market their causes as a just cause within 'global civil society' and why others fail to do so ending with being listed as a terrorist organization.

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Kurdish Cinema

Koçer¹

2023

The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East

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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective

Kurdish Cinema

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