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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- World Map -- Chronology -- Chapter 1 Historical Background on the Kurds -- Chapter Exercises -- Viewpoint 1 An Overview of the Kurds -- Viewpoint 2 Turkey's 1934 Settlement Law Targets Non-Turks Including Kurds -- Viewpoint 3 The Kurds Hoped for Equality and Peace on the Eve of Iraq's Independence -- Viewpoint 4 Turkey's Kurds Feel Fustrated and Bitter -- Viewpoint 5 Saddam Hussein is Accused of Using Poison Gas Against the Kurds -- Viewpoint 6 The Kurds Rebel in Iraq and Turkey After The Gulf War -- Viewpoint 7 Kurdish Graves Are Exhumed in Iraq -- Viewpoint 8 Kurds and Shia Muslims Vote Together in Post-Saddam Iraq -- Chapter 2 Controversies Surrounding the Kurds -- Chapter Exercises -- Viewpoint 1 Saddam Hussein's Actions Against the Kurds Constitute Genocide -- Viewpoint 2 Saddam Hussein's Actions Against the Kurds were Horrific, But Do Not Consititue Genocide -- Viewpoint 3 The Kurds Should Be Granted an Independent State -- Viewpoint 4 It Is Too Risky to Set Up an Independent State for the Kurds -- Viewpoint 5 The United States Has Nobly Protected Weaker Nations and Groups Like the Kurds -- Viewpoint 6 Chapter Three: Saddam Hussein's American Train -- Viewpoint 7 Iraqi Arabs Flock to Kurdistan -- Viewpoint 8 Kurdistan After Saddam Hussein Is Still Dependent on Foreign Support -- Viewpoint 9 Kurdistan After Saddam Hussein Is a Violent Gangster State -- Viewpoint 10 Turkish Actions Against Kurds Consititue Genocide -- Viewpoint 11 Turkey Has Not Mistreated the Kurds -- Viewpoint 12 The Kurdish Language and Culture Are Still Under Threat in Turkey -- Chapter 3 Personal Narratives -- Chapter Exercises -- Viewpoint 1 A Kurd Who Grew Up In Turkey Laments the Denial of His Cultural Identity

Recording Kurdish voices from Istanbul and Diyarbakır, Turkey's most important Kurdish-populated cities, this book documents Kurdish narratives of oppression and resistance, and enquires how Kurds reconcile their distinct ethnic identity and citizenship in modern Turkey.

Das große Siedlungsgebiet der Kurden wurde nach dem Untergang des Osmanischen Reichs von Grenzen durchtrennt. Die Angst vor kurdischen Autonomiebestrebungen führt seitdem zur Unterdrückung ihrer Kultur und wird durch die Verwirklichung einer Autonomie in Irak und Syrien weiter angeheizt. Die Autoren schildern die mehr als tausendjährige Geschichte der Kurden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der jüngsten Entwicklungen in der Türkei, im Irak und Iran sowie in Syrien. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt auch der kurdischen Kultur und den Familien- und Stammesstrukturen. Für die 4. Auflage wurde das bewährte Standardwerk auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Martin Strohmeier ist Professor für Türkische Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur an der University of Cyprus in Nikosia. Lale Yalçin-Heckmann ist am Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung in Halle an der Saale tätig.

Mit der Arbeit wird in Form einer integrativen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Darstellung erstmals eine interdisziplinaere Studie vorgelegt, in der versucht wird, den Stand der Forschung ueber die Herkunft der Kurden durch Erkenntnisse der Evolutionaeren Anthropologie, Genforschung, Archaeologie, einer aeltesten, verfuegbaren Terminologie, vergleichender Sprachwissenschaften und der Historiographie zusammenzufassen und daraus neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Das Ergebnis legt eine Neubewertung der Herkunft der Kurden nahe. Entgegen der bisher vorherrschenden Lehrmeinung, Kurden waeren Iranier und

This is an expanded and updated edition of "The Yezidis" by John S. Guest, published by Kegan Paul International in 1987. It has been revised and reissued in response to interest in the Kurdish people, of whom the Yezidis are a sect. The 150,000 members of the Yezidi religious group are spread out over Iraq, Turkey, Syria and the former USSR - and have, despite persecutions and discrimination, retained their identity for over 500 years. The author of this history of the Yezidis traces the origin of their religion, describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early ninetee

With an estimated population of over 30 million, the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They are becoming increasingly important within regional and international geopolitics, particularly since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Arab Spring and the war in Syria.This multidisciplinary Handbook provides a definitive overview of a range of themes within Kurdish studies. Topics covered include: Kurdish studies in the United States and Europe, Early Kurdish history, Kurdish culture, literature and cinema, Economic dimensions, Religion, Geography and travel, Kurdish women, The Kurdish situation in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, The Kurdish diaspora.With a wide range of contributions from many leading academic experts, this Handbook will be a vital resource for students and scholars of Kurdish studies and Middle Eastern studies.

"This book is a decisive contribution to the study of Kurdish history in Syria since the mandatory period (1920-1946) up to nowadays. Avoiding an essentialist approach, Jordi Tejel provides fine, complex and sometimes paradoxical analysis about the articulation between tribal, local, regional, and national identities, on one hand, and the formation of a Kurdish minority awareness vis-à-vis the consolidation of Arab nationalism in Syria, on the other hand. Using unpublished material, in particular concerning the Mandatory period (French records and Kurdish newspapers) and social movement theory, Tejel analyses the reasons of this "exception" within the Kurdish political sphere. In spite of the exclusion of Kurdishness from the public sphere, especially since 1963, Kurds of Syria have avoided a direct confrontation with the central power, most Kurds opting for a strategy of "dissimulation", cultivating internally the forms of identity that challenge the official ideology. The book explores the dynamics leading to the consolidation of Kurdish minority awareness in contemporary Syria; an ongoing process that could take the form of radicalization or even violence."--Publisher description.

"In the past decade, the Kurdish question has re-established itself at the heart of the regional political debates at a time when the Middle East is once again engulfed in conflict and violence. On numerous occasions during the second half of the 20th century, Kurdish nationalism has managed to generate and maintain strong appeal amongst Kurdish populations in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, but these states have perceived Kurdish ambitions as a threat to their national security and regional stability. At the beginning of the 21st century, Kurdish political activism has reached a new height with Kurdish movements in Iraq, Turkey and Syria establishing themselves as important political actors in the domestic politics of these states. The consolidation of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq in 2005 and the establishment of a Kurdish de facto autonomous region within Syria in 2012 have turned the Kurds into actors capable of influencing regional political developments and resultantly enabled them to forge stronger relations with the international forces involved in the region. The rise of the pro- Kurdish movement in Turkish politics in the past two decades, especially its strong electoral performance in a number of elections since 2015, has placed the Kurds at the heart of the political developments in Turkey too"--

The A to Z of the Kurds covers the largest nation on Earth that does not have its own independent state. Scholars, government officials who are dealing with the Middle East and the Kurds, the news media, as well as the general reader will find this an accessible historical account about a people who are becoming increasingly important for the future of the geostrategic Middle East. Maps, a chronology of Kurdish history, an introductory essay on the Kurds, a dictionary containing several hundred entries on various aspects of the Kurdish experience, and an extensive bibliography comprise this vo