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Cemil Paşa family; Kurds; Diyarbakır (Eastern Turkey); biography

Kurds; rebellions; history; Turkey

L'article sur Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, dirigeant politique kurde, combattant, universitaire polyglotte et secrétaire général du Parti démocratique du Kurdistan iranien (PDKI), assassiné en 1989 par les services secrets iraniens, entend présenter, avec un rappel historique, la dynamique du mouvement national kurde dans le cadre de l'État iranien. L'auteur propose une réflexion générale sur la personnalité du chef en contexte irrédentiste et situation de guerre, sur son analyse de la question kurde, son engagement en faveur du marxisme et son assassinat à Vienne.

Kurds; Communist parties; Turkey; politics and government; 21st century

Kurds; Kurdish problem; Turkey; terrorism and civil rights; political and historical opinions; politics and govenments

AMONG THE ROMANTIC IDOLS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE KURDS RANK HIGH. SUCH EMOTION HAS BEEN INVESTED IN THEM THAT FEW DISAPASSIONATE TREATMENT OF THE KURDISH ISSUE EXIST. IN FACT, THE SUSPENSION OF CRITICAL JUDGMENT HAS REACHED SUCH DIMENSIONS THAT ON PARTICIPANT AT AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARLY MEETING IN 1976 WENT SO FAR AS TO CLAIM THAT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HENRY KISSINGER WOULD BE REMEMBERED CHIEFLY AS THE BETRAYER OF THE KURDS!

Die Graphic Novel erzählt von 2 Reisen des Autors in die kurdische Region Rojava im syrisch-türkisch-irakischen Grenzgebiet. Mit viel Witz und fantastisch-grotesken Elementen berichtet Zerocalcare vom Kampf der Kurden gegen den IS und vom Aufbau demokratischer Strukturen im befreiten Kobane. Rezension: Der mehrfach ausgezeichnete italienische Comiczeichner und Blogger erzählt in dieser beeindruckenden, schwarz-weissen Graphic Novel von 2 Reisen, die er 2014/15 mit einer linksautonomen Unterstützergruppe in die Kurdenregion Rojava im syrisch-türkisch-irakischen Grenzgebiet unternommen hat. Mit viel karikierendem Witz, einer gehörigen Portion Selbstironie und fantastisch-grotesken Elementen, die immer wieder die Grenzen des Wirklichen sprengen, schildert Zerocalcares seitenstarke Novel auf spannend zu verfolgende Weise seinen Aufbruch aus der geordneten Welt seiner Heimat. Vom türkischen Grenzort Mehser verfolgt der Autor den Sieg der Kurden gegen die IS-Milizen im syrischen Kobane, in der befreiten Stadt erlebt er mit, wie die Kurden Selbstverwaltungsstrukturen aufbauen. Zerocalcare nutzt seine komplexen zeichnerischen und erzählerischen Mittel für vielfältige kritische Brechungen, so kann er Rojava um so glaubwürdiger als unterstützenswertes Gesellschaftsmodell vorführen, das sich, etwa durch die soziale Charta von 2014, auf vorbildliche Weise um demokratische, freiheitliche Strukturen bemüht. (2)

MANY KURDS IN TURKEY WERE STUNNED BY KURDISH REBEL LEADER ABDULLAH OCALAN'S STATEMENTS DURING HIS TRIAL FOR TREASON. INSTEAD OF MAKING A POLITICAL DEFENSE, THE REBEL CHIEF SIMPLY APOLOGIZED FOR HIS ACTIONS. MANY BELIEVE HE THOUGHT HE COULD SAVE HIS OWN LIFE BY STATING THAT THE PKK'S BATTLE SHOULD HAVE ENDED YEARS AGO AND THAT HE WAS READY TO SERVE THE TURKISH REPUBLIC. INSTEAD, OCALAN'S TACTIC BACKFIRED AND HE WAS CONVICTED OF TREASON AND SENTENCED TO HANG. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REBEL LEADER, THE KURDISH PROBLEM WILL REMAIN AS LONG AS ANKARA DENIES KURDS THEIR IDENTITY AND PRACTICES A SELECTIVE DEMOCRACY. IT IS NOT OCALAN OR THE PKK THAT ANKARA NEEDS TO NEGOTIATE WITH. IT NEEDS TO RESPECT HUMAN RIGHTS AND ALLOW THE KURDS THEIR FREEDOM.

This paper attempts to analyse independence aspirations of Iraqi Kurds. It considers issues of legal solutions used by Kurds in regard to institution of referendum. The paper analyses problems which hindered cooperation between Kurdistan Regional Government and Federal Government of Iraq. Moreover it highlights uniqueness of the region in lights of Iraqi constitutional solutions from 2005. The author puts forward a thesis that convening a referendum in 2017 was too hasty and refers to international opinion being a reaction to independence aspirations of Iraqi Kurds.

Introduction au dossier sur le Kurdistan / Stéphane VALTER. - La longue marche de la langue kurde en Irak / Halkawt HAKEM. - La politique culturelle du Gouvernement Régional du Kurdistan-Irak / Shwan JAFFAR. - Les territoires kurdes au Moyen-Orient : Contrôle politique versus développement économique / Gérard GAUTIER. - Les Kurdes de Syrie et le projet du Rojava : rêve éphémère ou espoir durable ? / Cyril ROUSSEL. - Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou : Un héritage incertain ? / Philippe BOULANGER. - ---. - Du Nigeria au Maghreb : le chaînon manquant entre Boko Haram et Al-Qai͏̈da / Marc-Antoine PEROUSE DE MONTCLOS

Yeşîl, Mehmûd, 1938-; Kurdish politician; biography; Turkey; Kurds; history; 20th century

Res§ʹo Kuri; Kurd; history; Turkey; Kurdish people; social life and condition

In this discussion of the fate of the Kurdish people in Turkey, the author argues that understanding the future of the Kurds must include acknowledgement of the unique polemics between the Turkish state & the Kurdish battle for recognition & representation. The relationship between the state & the Turkish Kurds is traced in a historical narrative to contextualize issues of Kurdish nationalism, membership in the EU, & insurgency & the civilizing mission of the Kemalist state. Europeanization of Turks & Kurds is asserted to conflict with the growing autonomy of the Kurdish population of northern Iraq, & the need for Turkey to provide a safe environment & legal recognition through the Copenhagen criteria. The inadequacies of the Copenhagen criteria are argued to not allow Kurds to exist without restrictions, & the old ideologies of the Turkish state & military need to be controlled by democratic principles. J. Harwell