Searching for the roots of present Turkey, by Etienne Copeaux
[This article was initially published on susam-sokak.fr on August 9, 2010] In 1996, the environmental issue became rather sensitive in Turkey; for example, in June, the leftist newspaper Yeni Yüzyıl drew the attention of its readers by publishing a map...
[First published in French on July 15, 2012 - https://www.susam-sokak.fr/article-le-reveil-du-kurdistan-imaginaire-d-ismail-besik-i-108170075.html] İsmail Beşikçi, who was born in 1939, is one of the most prominent intellectuals in the Turkey of the last...
This article is the second part o “The War Against the Kurds – The Village Guards” (https://susam-sokak-in-english.over-blog.com/2021/03/korucu.html) So unclear is the legal frame of these amateur units that an allegedly “popular” self-defense unit can...
[This article was initially published on susam-sokak.fr, on March 29, 2014] By simply adding a few sentences to an almost obsolete law, the Özal government instilled into Turkish society paramilitary troops, whose status is unclear and whose numbers are...
Varto is a little town of the Mush province, 30 miles north of the chief place, north-west of the lake of Van. Away from the main roads, it lies 4500 feet high on the first slopes of the Bingöl range (8000 ft) amidst a former Armenian country. According...
[This article was published in French on susam-sokak.fr, on May 27, 2013. http://www.susam-sokak.fr/article-esquisse-n-39-la-guerre-les-equipes-speciales-ozel-tim-118080292.html] In 1992, the war operations against Sırnak and other places, as well as...
[This article is the continuation of ” Anatolian Tribes, between Folklore and Politics" (link)] Some henchmen of the Bucak tribe, posing in the courtyard of Sedat Bucak's villa (Yeni Yüzyıl, November 13, 1996) The Bucak tribe of Siverek, a sub-prefecture...
[This paper was published on susam-sokak.fr, in French, on July 30, 2011: http://www.susam-sokak.fr/article-esquisses-16-istanbul-redecouvre-les-tribus-80513457.html] In 1996, the Southeastern Anatolia Regional Development Administration ( GAP Bölge Kalkınma...
[Initially published in susam-sokak.fr on March 4, 2012] In July 2020, in the Aegean province of Mu ğ la, Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old woman, was beaten and strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, Cemal Avcı, who then burned her body in a garbage bin...
One can successfully direct a mob against an "enemy" and incite it to commit murder, rape, loot, arson, provided that the "enemy" already exists in the conscience or even in the subconscious of any individual of the group. Hatred of the enemy must exist...