the war against the kurds

The War Against the Kurds - The Village Guards (1)

[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...

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Varto, 1996. Several Narratives for a Fictitious Assault

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...

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The War Against the Kurds – The “Special Forces” (1)

[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...

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The War Against the Kurds: 1991-1999, A Particular Decade

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...

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Anatolian Tribes 2 - Mighty Aghas and Fallen Chiefs

[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...

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Anatolian Tribes, between Folklore and Politics

[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...

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Gender-Based Violence. About the Fate of Some Young Women

[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...

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Exhibiting Corpses

[Initially published on susam-sokak.fr on September 5, 2010. Revised and translated in July, 2020] In France, publishing a photograph of a corpse remains taboo. This is perhaps the reason why some images picked out of my corpus drew my attention. In the...

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