The Kurds of Central Anatolia (eBook, PDF)

The History, Identity and Future of a Forgotten People
Redaktion: Gurses, Mehmet; Cevik, Haci

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From the 16th century up to the last decades of the Ottoman Empire, dozens of Kurdish tribes migrated west and settled in the Central Anatolian plains.

Geographically isolated, these Kurds sustained a largely peaceful relationship with their Turkish neighbours and maintained their tribal traditions and distinct ethnolinguistic identity. But more recently they have been exposed to forces of modernization and increasingly confrontational Turkish-Kurdish relations. This book is the first study in the English language on the Kurds of Central Anatolia. Based on extensive fieldwork, the majority of the chapters are written by scholars from within the Central Anatolian community and include perspectives from across history, anthropology, sociology and political science. The book analyses how these Kurds came to be in the plains of Central Anatolia, how they maintained their distinct identity and their evolving relationship with Turkey. It also examines the diaspora communities following their large-scale migration toward major urban centres in Turkey and Western countries. At a time when the Kurds of Central Anatolia are undergoing wide-scale transformations and contact with Kurds from the east, this book is an increasingly urgent examination into their past, their Kurdish identity and their future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755655793
• Artikelnr.: 76016125

Autorenporträt

Mehmet Gurses is the Najmaldin Karim & Jalal Talabani Chair of Kurdish Studies in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida, USA. He is the author of Anatomy of a Civil War: Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey (2018) and co-editor of Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics (2020). Haci Cevik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University, Germany. He is the author of Are There Kurds in Konya? (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Hamit Bozarslan
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Paris
France Introduction
Mehmet Gurses
University of Central Florida
US
and Haci Cevik
Humboldt University
Germany Section I: Kurds of Central Anatolia: An Overview Chapter 1: The Historical Odyssey of Kurds of Central Anatolia
Yalcin Cakmak
Munzur University
Turkey Chapter 2: Researching Kurds of Central Anatolia: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in Studying Kurds of Central Anatolia
Yucel Demirer
Independent Scholar
Turkey Chapter 3: Literary Works on Kurds of Central Anatolia: Resistance through Publishing
Adem Ozgur
Independent Journalist
Netherlands Section II: Being Kurdish in a Sea of Turkishness Chapter 4: Desert Kurds of Kirsehir: Clinging to Kurdishness in the Heart of Anatolia
Arzu Yilmaz
University of Kurdistan
Hewler Chapter 5: Kurds of Haymana-Ankara: A Kurdish Tribe in Turkish Capital
Reyhan Ozsahin
University of Tubingen
Germany and Haci Cevik
Humboldt University
Germany Chapter 6: Migration
Identity
and Cultural Memory: Social Construction of Kurdishness in Bala-Ankara
Sena Kaplan
University of Virginia
US Chapter 7: Kurds of Yunak: Walking a Tightrope in Konya
Beyza Han-Tuncez
University of California
Berkeley
US Chapter 8: A Kurdish Mahalle in Kastamonu: Neighborhood as Identity
Reyhan Ozsahin
University of Tubingen
Germany Section III: The Evolving Kurdishness in Central Anatolia Chapter 9: Identity
Migration
and Architecture among the Kurds of Central Anatolia
Gülüstan Polat-Yilmaz
Technical University of Graz
Austria Chapter 10: Women and Politics Among Kurds of Central Anatolia
Busra Çelik Kosan
Independent Scholar
Turkey Chapter 11: The Shifting Ground and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Konya
Haci Cevik
Humboldt University
Germany
and Mehmet Gurses
University of Central Florida
US