Searching for the roots of present Turkey, by Etienne Copeaux
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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...
[continuation of “The War Against the Kurds – The “Special Forces” (1)”] A view of Güneyce, near Mesudiye (province of Ordu). Source: https://www.koylerim.com/mesudiye-guneyce-koyu-resimleri-18994g.htm It is time to counter the pleas reported in the precedent...
[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...
By Halis Yıldırım, a philosopher whose fields of research are the conception of history in Hegel, Gramsci and Benjamin, and the Armenian genocide. Followed by an article published on the information website bianet.org (link below) on January 11, 2021 Bonapartism...
Dozens of dead during the Newroz celebrations, destruction by state forces of the city of Sırnak and of several small towns, assassination of the Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter and of several journalists... These events of the year 1992 was a huge blow...
Stupefaction: “The state of being strongly impressed by something unexpected or unusual” (“Stupefaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stupefaction . Accessed 2 Nov. 2020.) [This article was...
[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...