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This paper proposes a new conceptual framework in understanding the dynamics within the Kurdish and Turkish (KT) owned firms in London by utilising Charles Tilly's work concerning collective resource mobilisation. Drawing on 60 in-depth interviews with restaurant, off-licence, kebab-shop, coffee-shop, supermarket, wholesaler owners and various community organisations, the paper sheds light upon the questions of why and how the KT communities in London moved into, and are over represented and why Turkish Cypriots are absent in small business ownership. The re-search illustrates that members of the KT communities aligned in their interests to become small business owners after the demise of textile industry in the midst of 1990s in London. The interest alignment in small business ownership required activation of various forms of capital and transposition of social, cultural and economic capital into one another.

This research attempts to investigate the problems that affect ethnic minorities from an administrative law viewpoint, and more specifically, a good governance perspective. Generally speaking, ethnic minorities are often discriminated against.Ethnic minorities are a vulnerable group of people who often lack access to public services, and are often victims of maladministration and frequent human rights violations. From an administrative law perspective, the concept of good governance is concerned with the norms for the government and the legal protection for the people, including ethnic minorities. Sometimes, governments are challenged in their ability to faithfully act on principles, including: legal certainty, equality, proportionality, carefulness, and avoiding misuse of power and arbitrariness. If governments engage in maladministration, mismanagement, corruption, and misuse of power, the implementation of the norms for the government may be suspended. Furthermore, when a government engages in maladministration, mismanagement and so on, vulnerable groups — including ethnic minorities — are likely to be amongst the worst affected. This research discusses the position of Chinese and Turkish communities in Indonesia. problems pertaining to maladministration and discrimination are analysed from the perspective of good governance. Specific examples and cases are addressed. In Indonesia, for example, Chinese-Indonesians struggle to access public services due to the requirement of proof of citizenship (SBKRI). Land and properties of certain Chinese organisations have been arbitrarily confiscated, and many Chinese-Indonesians were forced to assimilate through 'changing-name' during the New Order era (1967-1998). At the present time, Chinese-Indonesians still face many problems based on their ethnicity, including an inability to owning land in Yogyakarta. Meanwhile, Turkish communities in Indonesia have experienced problems of maladministration. For example, the one case of arbitrary detention by Indonesian ...

Transnational islamic communities in a multilingual secular society / Ron Lesthaeghe -- On the selectivity and international dynamics of labour migration processes: an analysis of Turkish and Moroccan migration to Belgium / Georges Reniers -- Third wave of immigration from Turkey and Morocco: determinants and characteristics / John Lievens -- Islamic communities in Belgium: religious orientations and secularization / Ron Lesthaeghe, Karel Neels -- Social integration of ethnic minorities: indicators at the family level / John Surkyn -- Dimensions and determinants of integration-related attitudes among Turkish and Moroccan men in Belgium / Ron Lesthaeghe, Johan Surkyn, Ingrid Van Craenem -- Education and the transition to employment: young Turkish and Moroccan adults in Belgium / Karel Neels -- Reassessing the ethnic gap: employment of younger Turks and Moroccans in Belgium / Karel Neels, Reinhard Stoop -- Turkish and Moroccan ethnic enterprises in Belgium: who participates? / Guy Moors

AbstractThe pivotal role played by Computer‐Mediated Communications (CMCs) as mobilization tools for social movements as diverse as the 'Arab Spring', the Iranian 'Green Revolution', and the 2008 Greek 'December Riots', has rekindled academic interest in the internet as a field of sociological research. Drawing on new media and nationalism studies, this article approaches a particular type of CMC as a 'virtual community'. By examining the context of post‐1999 Greek‐Turkish reconciliation, it is argued that these virtual communities have offered significant breathing space for individuals who are ready to revisit, discuss, and negotiate the constitutive boundaries of modernity's 'imagined communities', and are therefore conducive to the Greek‐Turkish rapprochement.

Doktora Tezi ; Yoğun Türk nüfusunun bulunduğu İran coğrafyası Türkoloji çalışmaları bakımından büyük önem arz etmektedir. Özellikle Oğuz grubunun bu coğrafyada uzun zamandan beri varlığını sürdüğü bilinen bir gerçektir. Tüm önemine ve gerçekliğine rağmen İran'daki Türkoloji çalışmaları yakın bir geçmişte başlamıştır. Özellikle Doerfer'in 1970'li yıllarda yaptığı İran araştırma gezileri Türkoloji çalışmalarına yön vermiş ve Türkoloji çalışmaları hız kazanmıştır. Halaçça gibi Türk Dilinin tarihî lehçelerinden birinin İran'ın tam ortasında tespit edilmesinin ardından Türk dili tasnifi yeniden yapılmak zorunda kalmıştır. Bütün bu gelişmeler dikkatleri İran coğrafyasına çekmiştir. İrili ufaklı birçok Türk topluluğunun yaşadığı İran, dikkatlerin üzerine çekilmesinin ardından bize zengin bir malzeme sunmaya başlamıştır. Güney Azerbaycan, Horasan, Türkmen, Kaşkay Türkçesi gibi yüksek konuşur oranına sahip Türk diyalektlerinin yanında, sayıları oldukça az küçük Türk toplulukları da İran'ın hemen hemen yerine serpilmiş durumdadır. Çalışmamızın esasını teşkil eden Sungur Türkçesi de konuşur sayısı oldukça azalmış Türk diyalektlerinden birisidir. Çalışmada Sungur Türkçesinin ses ve şekil bilgisi özellikleri tanımlayıcı gramer (Descriptive Grammar) yöntemiyle incelenmiştir. Çalışma, Giriş, Ses Bilgisi, Şekil Bilgisi, Sonuç, Kaynakça, Metinler ve Dizin bölümlerinden oluşmaktadır. ; Abstract ; The geography of Iran where a high rate of Turkish population is found has a great importance for Turkology studies. Particularly, it is a known fact that the Oghuz group has maintained its presence in thi geography for a long time. In spite of its importance and reality, the Turkology studies in Iran started in the near past. In particular, the Iran research trips achieved by Doerfer in 1970s gave direction to Turkology studies, and Turkology studies were accelerated. After one of the Turkish language?s historical dialects like Khalaj was discovered in the just center of Iran, the classification of Turkish language was required to be remade. All of these developments attracted attentions to Iran geography. Iran, where a lot of small and large Turkish communities live, began to provide us a rich material after it drew the focuses. Besides the Turkish dialects such as Southern Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Turkmen, Kashqai Turkish that have a high rate of speakers, some other Turkish communities whose number is quite a few has been spread almost all around Iran. The Sungur Turkish that constitutes the basis of our study is one of the Turkish dialects that has few speakers. In this study, the phonetical and morphological characteristics of Sungur Turkish have been analyzed with descriptive grammer method. The study consists of Introduction, Phonetics, Morphology, Conclusion, Bibliography, Passages and Index chapters.

Introduction: Islam, identity, and Muslim public life in Europe -- Turkish Islamic field -- Islamic authority and knowledge -- Islamic activism: reinterpreting Islam in practice -- State policies and Islam in Germany and the Netherlands -- Islamic organizations and Muslim integration -- The Kaplan community: a revolutionary form of Islam

The central objective of this research is to shed light on the role of the diasporic web sites in terms of fulfilling various needs and expectations of diasporic communitieis, in which an evolving hybridity in structure has been revealed in recent years. In this context, it is aimed to investigate the functions of Turkish diasporic websites addressing the German-Turkish community. The study is undertaken by means of a content analysis of the main services provided in the five most popular Turkish web sites in Germany and through complementary semi-structured interviews with the moderators of these sites. The findings reveal that these web sites aim to undertake a unifying mission for the Turkish community in Germany. At the content level, nationalist references to homeland in these web sites are found to be limited. Homeland image is asopted only as an authentic reference or identity, which assuresa a familiar platform for an audience who in fact want to define themselves as settled members of the German society. Rather than presenting a platform to answer community needs in the context of traditional community communication paradigm, the focus is oriented to the individualistic expectations of the users throgh interactive tools like event caledars and friend finders. Diverse virtual individualities proposed by interactive technologies on Internet seems to bring out the emergence of a new, syncrenic, hybrid culture among the German-Turkish, which is based on three axes: Homeland, diaspora and technology culture. (ECMI)