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		<title>International Work Group: “Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INAUGURAL DECLARATION NOVEMBER 21, 2011 International Work Group: “Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey” (Groupe International de Travail “GIT”) A Critical Situation for Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research Governmental measures of repression and attacks against academic research, teaching, translation and publication in Turkey have intensified since 2009. They have reached an alarming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=792&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book: Understanding Media and Culture in Turkey: Structures, Spaces, Voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edited by Christian Christensen and Miyase Christensen To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge. Discourse (both popular and academic) surrounding Turkey has leaned toward the reductionist and the de-contextualized, framing Turkish media, culture and politics in polarized terms such as East vs. West, Modern vs. Traditional or Muslim vs. Christian. The objective of this new volume [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=767&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Press release: Ismail Beşikçi foundation established</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly a year since we as a group of intellectuals and businessmen began organising a foundation in honour of Ismail Besikci, that our labour gave fruit with the Official Gazette date issued 29 November 2011 alongside the registration statement from the General Directory of Foundations. Our prime goal is to pass the conscience of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=740&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Kurdish scholars put gender theory to the test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[13 October 2011 Matthew Reisz &#8211; Times Higher Education The term &#8220;gender&#8221; does not exist in Kurdish and is sometimes seen as a synonym for homosexuality. Yet gender issues are at the heart of the conflict between traditionalist and progressive forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Nazand Begikhani, a senior research Fellow at the University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=666&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Reader: Modern Literature and Oral Texts in Kurmanji</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurdish Reader by Khanna Omarkhali comprises an exciting collection of texts in Kurmanji, the northern dialect of the Kurdish language. It is designed to help students with a basic knowledge of the Kurdish language to enhance their fluency by studying a variety of texts ranging from literary and folklore to non-narrative prose works.The first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=656&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book: The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkey, at the very intersection between Europe and the Middle East, comprises a plethora of ethnicities and minority groups. There is however very little official data about many of its chief minorities. The Zazas are one such group: a Kurdish people speaking the Zaza dialect, and living as a distinct people in the eastern Anatolian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=607&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish Studies and language classes at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter was released by MTSU at the end of August announcing further development of the institution’s budding Kurdish Studies programme. Last August MTSU announced that it would begin teaching Kurdish. MTSU is only one of three universities in the US where Kurdish is taught. The other two are the University of Arizona and Portland State [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=599&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book: The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey: From Protest to Resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Cengiz Gunes This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s. By raising issues and questions relating to Kurdish political identity and highlighting the ideological specificity, diversity and the transformation of Kurdish nationalism, it develops a new empirical dimension to the study of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=582&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurds and the State in Iran: The Making of Kurdish Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early 1946, Kurds declared an independent republic in north-west Iran. The Mahabad Republic, as it became known, was the first time that the Kurds experienced self-rule in the modern era. Although short-lived, the Republic had a formative influence on the subsequent development of Kurdish nationalist movements in Iran and the wider region. Here, Abbas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=571&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book: Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Choman Hardi, Senior Associate Member of St Antony&#8217;s College, Oxford, UK April 2011, Ashgate Between February and September 1988, the Iraqi government destroyed over 2000 Kurdish villages, killing somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 civilians and displacing many more. The operation was codenamed Anfal which literally means &#8216;the spoils of war&#8217;. For the survivors of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kurdishstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15193478&amp;post=553&amp;subd=kurdishstudiesnetwork&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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