International Journal of Kurdish Studies articles from January 1 2007

International Journal of Kurdish Studies archives from January 1 2007

A cautionary tale.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... A number of articles in this 21st volume of the journal deal with Kurdish nationalist aspirations. To broaden and deepen reflection on the subject, here are excerpts from an argument against self-determination based on ethnicity. The author is...

Forest burning as counterinsurgency in Turkish-Kurdistan: an analysis from space.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Summary From the early 1990s up to 2006, the Turkish Army was reported to have used the burning of forests, fields and villages in the Kurdish areas as a strategy in the conflict against the insurgent PKK. This article evaluates this claim...

Kurdish politics in Turkey: "a question of identity".(Report)
January 1, 2007... The image of Kurds fighting the Turkish state emerged time and again during the 20th century. Turkish nation building has been confronted by resolute resistance from Kurds, the majority of whom found themselves within the borders of Turkey...

From steppe to empire: the Turkmens in Iraq.
January 1, 2007... Fire and Water: The First Five Hundred Years The first experience of the country now known as Iraq with the nomadic Turkmens or Turkomans (also called Ghuzz or Oghuz) occurred in the early 1040s. It was at this time that massive Turkmen...

The Terrier Plan and the emergence of a Kurdish policy under the French Mandate in Syria, 1926-1936.(Report)
January 1, 2007... The triangular relationship between European powers, indigenous state actors and minority players, initiated towards the end of the Ottoman Empire (1880s-1918), continued beyond the Empire's collapse with the creation of new independent states....

The stateless Kurds in Syria: problems and prospects for the ajanib and maktumin Kurds.(Report)
January 1, 2007... Since the Gulf War of 1991, the Kurdish question has drawn a growing interest among scholars, journalists and policymakers. This will surely continue as a result of the American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. But while most studies of the...

Black-white man, white-red woman: gender representations in Kurdish urban society.(Report)
January 1, 2007... The paper examines cultural representations of gender in Iraqi Kurdistan in the context of colors as social symbols of "masculinity" and "femininity". Exploring the colors white, red and black as examples, the paper argues that the exchange of...

The Milwari Dexazim of Ja'far Qoli Zangali a Kurmanci lyric verse from northern Khurasan.(Khorasan, Iran)(Essay)
January 1, 2007... Kurdish literature of Khurasan first appeared in Persian writing after the migration of the Kurds in 1009/1600, in the period of Shah 'Abbas (1). The formal style of Khurasan's Kurds in Kurdish, known as Kurmanci, came to prominence in the...

Mystical Love and Mystical Nationalism in Farhad Shakely's String.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... This analysis of Farhad Shakely's long poem, String, is the first project of its kind in English. It begins with an exploration of the poet's literary career, the foundation he set for modern poetic language and Kurdish prose poetry, and his...

String.(Poem)
January 1, 2007... When the season of dreaming begins, I fix my eyes on the ascending road and ask myself: Should you too take this path? I seek shelter in my silent times and slowly count the nights and the days. I tie the braid of night with a...