The non-education of Kurds: A Kurdish perspective

Hassanpour, Amir; Skutnabb‐Kangas, Tove; Chyet, Michael L.

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“…Hence, unlike US South (Engerman and Sokoloff, 2005) or Latin America (Wegenast, 2010) or India (Banerjee and Iyer, 2005), local elites do not need to shoulder the financing of public education locally. Nation building through public education is accompanied by the denial of Kurdish identity and language (Hassanpour et al, 1996), which eventually led to armed conflict and finally lack of instruction in mother tongue probably hampered the scope of learning for Kurdish students (Coşkun et al, 2011;Çağlayan, 2014;Derince, 2012;Cin and Walker, 2016 Table A1 here Table A2 here Table A3 here…”

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“…The construction of the nation state, under the Turkish identity, moved along with a denial of Kurdish identity (Kirişçi and Winrow, 1997) and language (Yeğen, 2007). Kurdish was prohibited and actively prosecuted for most of the twentieth century in Turkey (Hassanpour et al, 1996). During military regime followed by 1980 coup in Turkey, PKK started an armed conflict in 1984.…”

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Ethnic fractionalization, conflict and educational development in Turkey

Oyvat

Tekgüç

2019

International Journal of Educational Development

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We examine the impact of ethnic fractionalization and conflict on limiting the educational development in Southeastern Turkey. Our estimates show that although the armed conflict in the region did not directly hinder education investments, it reduced school enrolment rates at middle and high school levels, while increasing enrolment at the primary school level. Moreover, we show that provinces with higher percentages of Kurdish population received less education investment. These results suggest that the neglect of Kurdish areas is an important factor behind Southeastern Turkey's educational underdevelopment, while land inequality and the armed conflict had mixed effects on education in the region.

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Ethnic fractionalization, conflict and educational development in Turkey

Oyvat

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2019

International Journal of Educational Development

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“…As the largest stateless nation in the world (Yildiz and Taysi, 2007: 1), their population is between 35 million and 40 million 2 . A diaspora has spread Kurds to the United States and the former Soviet Union (Kreyenbroek and Sperl, 1992), 3 Lebanon (O'Shea, 2004), Europe (Hassanpour, 1996), and also the northeast province of Khorasan, Iran (Gunter, 2009). But the highest numbers reside in Turkey (Kreyenbroek and Sperl, 1992: 15).…”

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Kurdish Regional Self-rule Administration in Syria: A new Model of Statehood and its Status in International Law Compared to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq

Radpey¹

2016

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Having been supressed and denied their rights by successive Syrian governments over the years, Syrian Kurds are now asserting a de facto autonomy. Since the withdrawal of the Syrian President's forces from the ethnically Kurdish areas in the early months of the current civil war, the inhabitants have declared a self-rule government along the lines of the Kurdistan regional government in northern Iraq. For Syrian Kurds, the creation of a small autonomous region is a dream fulfilled, albeit one unrecognized by the international community. Some 15% to 17% of the Syrian population is Kurdish. Whether they can achieve statehood will depend on a reading of international law and on how the international community reacts. There are certain aspects which differentiate Kurdish self-rule in Syria from its counterpart in Iraq.

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“…The marriage of two people brings about more complex and wide-reaching impacts within the system of kinship relationships. In the traditional social system in particular, in the absence of literary cultural institutions, the language spoken in everyday life is the main instrument for the transfer of cultural heritage (Hassanpour et al, 1996). Teaching language to the new generation and preserving it in day-to-day life forms the primary way of keeping traditions and cultural identities intact and resisting assimilation in the modern world.…”

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“…Likewise, a man of a lower educational level has less chance of marrying a woman from a more educated background than him (Gündüz-Hoşgör and Smits, 2002). Nonetheless, there have been many changes within this population over the last 20 years (Mutlu, 1996;van Bruinessen, 2003), thanks to modernisation, migration to urban centres and increasing access to education (Hassanpour et al, 1996) due to violence in the predominantly Kurdish south-east. This has led to new forms and criteria in partner choices among both men and women.…”

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Debates on inter-ethnic marriages: assimilation or integration? The Turkish perspective

Gültekin¹

2012

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This paper opens a new debate on ethnic intermarriage between Kurdish and Turkish people in Turkey. It addresses how the institution of marriage has become a political subject in the wake of the foundation of the republic and classifies these marriages according to their social and cultural environment. In order to understand the phenomenon, it opens a sociological investigation into the assimilation, integration and hybridisation processes involved in intermarriage between Kurdish and Turkish people. This paper looks at spoken language as an instrument of cultural continuity and a vector for the transfer of cultural institutions to future generations within a traditional-patriarchal society. It establishes a connection between the subjects of assimilation, integration and hybridisation with those of intermarriage and language.

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The non-education of Kurds: A Kurdish perspective

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Ethnic fractionalization, conflict and educational development in Turkey

Ethnic fractionalization, conflict and educational development in Turkey

Kurdish Regional Self-rule Administration in Syria: A new Model of Statehood and its Status in International Law Compared to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq

Debates on inter-ethnic marriages: assimilation or integration? The Turkish perspective

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