Abstract While the Palestinian struggle has received widespread support from non-Palestinian activists across North America and Europe, Kurdish in Turkey, which is similar to cause important ways, not such extensive non-Kurdish activists. Existing explanations do fully account for this difference. I argue that variation non-diasporic part a product of impact differences between diasporas West h...

This research analyses the political Islamic movement in East of Kurdistan between 1979-2001. In 1979, after Iranian Nations revolution's success, a number religious movements and organizations formed. A part these was working to establish local Kurdish-Islamic authority. On other hand, there were with Ayatollah Khomeini newly installed regime Tehran, others identifying themselves under umbrell...

This paper aims to investigate interactions between the Kurds and development agents in the field of sustainable development. The theoretical approach of the research is based on modernization theories. Research methodology is qualitative, with an emphasis on grounded theory. Data was collected through depth interviews, participant observation, document and secondary analysis. In the field of p...

Identity and collective memory is one of the fascinating subjects in modern sociology. In Iran, it arose again as modern and government-nation discourse emerged, and has been endlessly discussed since then. Such subjects have assumed an increasing importance due to the multi-cultural and multi-ethical existence of Iranian society and recent global developments. Accordingly, the present study ha...

academic writing ability is an important goal that learners of english as a second language (esl) or english as a foreign language (efl) try to attain. while esl students’ academic writings have been widely explored, owing to few studies investigating appraisal resources in efl students’ argumentative writing, the gap still exists about efl students’ academic writing. this study aimed to see ho...

This study deals with how the Kurdish question was evaluated from a radical Islamist perspective and aims to reveal approach adopted by Islamism in Turkey towards issue during 1980s 1990s. argues that there is direct relationship between ideas of Islamists on nation-state nationalism, they adopt question, which national an ethno-political content. Between 1980-2002, Turkey, categorically oppose...