Democratic Autonomy In North Kurdistan

Author : Tatort Kurdistan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8293064277

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Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan by Tatort Kurdistan Pdf

In order to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, the Kurdish Freedom Movement in Turkey has developed an alternative social model: Democratic Autonomy. In the fall of 2011, a group of TATORT activists journeyed into the Kurdish regions of Turkey to learn how the theory of Democratic Autonomy was being put into practice. They discovered a remarkable experiment in face-to-face democracy--all the more notable for being carried out in wartime. Since 2005, under the most difficult of conditions, the movement in North Kurdistan has created structures for a democratic, ecological and gender-liberated society. At its core is a system of councils in villages, cities, and neighborhoods. These structures do not yet offer a way of life that is fully independent of the nation-state and the market economy, but they nonetheless reveal a potent civil counter-power. The interviews and documentation in this book provide thought-provoking glimpses into the practical implementation of a new left vision. The radical democratic awakening of the Kurds may serve as an inspiration for social change in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Author : Michael Knapp (Historian),Anja Flach,Ercan Ayboga,Asya Abdullah
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0745336647

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Revolution in Rojava by Michael Knapp (Historian),Anja Flach,Ercan Ayboga,Asya Abdullah Pdf

The first full-length book of the unique and extraordinary political situation in Rojava, Syria

Author : Eliza Egret,Tom Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1907738215

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Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan by Eliza Egret,Tom Anderson Pdf

Kurdistan is currently divided between four countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. In each of the parts of Kurdistan, Kurdish identities and cultures have been repressed for generations. This book, by Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson, gathers together first-hand accounts of the struggles for a new society taking place in Bakur and Rojava the parts of Kurdistan within the borders of Turkey and Syria. The setting up of local assemblies and co-operatives, as well as radical women's and ecological movements, are rapidly gathering momentum in Kurdistan. The book gives a simple introduction to democratic confederalism, the idea that has inspired many of those involved in these movements. The book also compiles accounts from Kurdish people who are oppressed by the state of Turkey and profiles some of the companies that are complicit in their repression. The interviews give suggestions of how people outside of Kurdistan can act in solidarity."

Author : Seevan Saeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317271161

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Kurdish Politics in Turkey by Seevan Saeed Pdf

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds were promised their own state. However, several factors meant that this dream never became a reality, and the land of the Kurds was divided. Amid a sense of a loss of identity, the Kurds started to fight for their social and political rights. ‘Kurdish Politics in Turkey’ argues that the Kurdish struggle has largely been a failure, and that the emergence of the Unions of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) has been a direct result of this. The book examines the success of the KCK and how it has transformed this Kurdish struggle in Turkey from a one-dimensional political movement, to a multi-dimensional social movement.

Author : Zeynep Kaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474696

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Mapping Kurdistan by Zeynep Kaya Pdf

Examines how the idea of Kurdistan, as a homeland and a source of national identity, was created within international political history.

Author : Harriet Allsopp,Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788315982

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The Kurds of Northern Syria by Harriet Allsopp,Wladimir van Wilgenburg Pdf

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys, this book sheds light on the socio-political landscape of this minority group and the various political factions vying to speak for them. The first English-language book to capture the momentous transformations that have occurred since 2011, the authors move beyond idealized images of Rojava and the Kurdish PYD (Democratic Union Party) to provide a nuanced assessment of the Kurdish autonomous experience and the prospects for self-rule in Syria. The book draws on unparalleled field research, as well as analysis of the literature on the evolution of Kurdish politics and the Syrian war. You will understand why the PYD-led project in Syria split the Kurdish political movement and how other representative structures amongst Syria's Kurds fared. Emerging clearly are the complex range of views about pre-existing, current and future governance structures.

Author : Kerem Öktem,Karabekir Akkoyunlu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351381840

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Exit from Democracy by Kerem Öktem,Karabekir Akkoyunlu Pdf

Democratic government is facing unprecedented challenges at a global scale. Yet, Turkey's descent into conflict, crisis and autocracy is exceptional. Only a few years ago, the country was praised as a successful Muslim-majority democracy and a promising example of sustainable growth. In Turkey’s Exit from Democracy, the contributors argue that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party government have now effectively abandoned the realm of democratic politics by attempting regime change with the aim to install a hyper-presidentialist system. Examining how this power grab comes at the tail end of more than a decade of seemingly democratic politics, the contributors also explore the mechanisms of de-democratization through two distinctive, but interrelated angles: A set of comparative analyses explores illiberal forms of governance in Turkey, Russia, Southeast Europe and Latin America. In-depth studies analyse how Turkey's society has been reshaped in the image of a patriarchal habitus and how consent has been fabricated through religious, educational, ethnic and civil society policies. Despite this comprehensive authoritarian shift, the result is not authoritarian consolidation, but a deeply divided and contested polity. Analysing an early example of democratic decline and authoritarian politics, this volume is relevant well beyond the confines of regional studies. Turkey exemplifies the larger forces of de-democratization at play globally. Turkey’s Exit from Democracy provides the reader with generalizable insights into these transformative processes. These chapters were originally published as a special issue in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Author : Veli Yadirgi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107181236

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The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey by Veli Yadirgi Pdf

An examination of the link between the economic and political development of the Kurds in Turkey, and Turkey's Kurdish question.

Author : Gareth R. V. Stansfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134414154

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Iraqi Kurdistan by Gareth R. V. Stansfield Pdf

The Iraqi Kurds have enjoyed de facto statehood in the north of Iraq for over a decade but Intra-Kurdish fighting, military incursions by Turkey and Iran and the constant threat posed by Saddam Hussein have plagued this 'democratic experiment'. In this book, Stansfield explores the development of the Kurdish political system since 1991. He examines the difficult and often violent relations between the two dominant powers, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and their relationship with the Kurdish Regional Government in order to understand the current state of Iraqi Kurdish politics and the operation of the state. This topical in-depth study identifies the main dynamics of Iraqi Kurdish politics, analyzes the record and potential of the 'Kurdish democratic experiment', and identifies the present and future Kurdish leaders.

Author : Thomas Schmidinger
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781629636559

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Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds by Thomas Schmidinger Pdf

In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) as the area has been called for centuries, had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region in 2012, enabling the Party of Democratic Union (PYD), the Syrian sister party of Abdullah Öcalan’s outlawed Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to first introduce a Kurdish self-administration and then, in 2014, to establish the Canton Afrin as one of the three parts of the heavily Kurdish Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, which is better known under the name Rojava. This self-administration—which had seen multiparty municipal and regionwide elections in the summer and autumn of 2017, which included a far-reaching autonomy for a number of ethnic and religious groups, and which had provided a safe haven for up to 300,000 refugees from other parts of Syria—is now at risk of being annihilated by the Turkish invasion and occupation. Thomas Schmidinger is one of the very few Europeans to have visited the Canton of Afrin. In this book, he gives an account of the history and the present situation of the region. In a number of interviews, he also gives inhabitants of the region from a variety of ethnicities, religions, political orientations, and walks of life the opportunity to speak for themselves. As things stand now, the book might seem to be in danger of becoming an epitaph for the “Mountain of the Kurds,” but as the author writes, “the battle for the Mountain of the Kurds is far from over yet.”

Author : Abdullah Öcalan
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0745399762

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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan by Abdullah Öcalan Pdf

The essential introduction to the writings of Abdullah Öcalan, founder of Democratic Confederalism

Author : Tove H. Malloy,Levente Salat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000205688

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Non-Territorial Autonomy and Decentralization by Tove H. Malloy,Levente Salat Pdf

This volume describes and analyzes alternative and emerging models of non-territorial autonomy (NTA), particularly in relation to decentralization. The authors push the NTA debate in new directions by offering a re-conceptualization based on ethno-cultural bottom-up decentralized action that redefines autonomy into its true sense of autonomous action. Through description, critical analysis, and evaluation of several case studies, this book assesses the potential for new paradigms within decentralized systems. The authors explore two approaches to political decentralization which add to the theoretical debate on NTA – network governance, which focuses on new dynamics in policy processes, and normative pluralism, which focuses on accommodating the distinctness of the groups through the subsidiarity principle with regard to their own affairs. The book explores the potential ramifications of ethno-cultural NTA institutions acting within the wider framework of state institutions and assesses the functions of these institutions as another dimension of decentralization and thus another ‘layer’ of democracy. With contemporary examples from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South Africa, as well as theoretical aspects of the conceptualization of autonomy, this book offers a truly global perspective. It will be of great interest to policy-makers in countries experiencing adverse developments due to the pressure on public management, as well as advanced students and scholars questioning the ability of the Westphalian system to address cultural diversity.

Author : Francis O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396850927

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Kurdish Movement in Turkey: Between Political Differentiation and Violent Confrontation by Francis O'Connor Pdf

Author : Hamit Bozarslan,Cengiz Gunes,Veli Yadirgi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108583015

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds by Hamit Bozarslan,Cengiz Gunes,Veli Yadirgi Pdf

The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629634661

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Setting Sights by Anonim Pdf

Decades ago, Malcolm X eloquently stated that communities have the legitimate right to defend themselves “by any means necessary” with any tool or tactic, including guns. This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from a call to arms, or a “how-to” manual for warfare, this volume offers histories, reflections, and questions about the role of firearms in small collective defense efforts and its place in larger efforts toward the creation of autonomy and liberation. Featuring diverse perspectives from movements across the globe, Setting Sights includes vivid histories and personal reflections from both researchers and those who participated in community armed self-defense. Contributors include Dennis Banks, Kathleen Cleaver, Mabel Williams, Subcomandante Marcos, Kristian Williams, George Ciccariello-Maher, Ashanti Alston, and many more.