The consensus view of village guards: “The state used us” *As published in BIANET on 10/11/2013 The village guard system has been a subject of discussion in Turkey since 1985, the year the system was first launched. The system came to agenda usually with respect to crimes committed by village guards. There is a lack […]
Author: Nurcan Baysal
Kurdish Women: Resilience In The Face Of Double Discrimination (Interview with Handan Çağlayan and Nurcan Baysal) Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on favoritesShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing Services Source: AWID 12/04/2012 www.awid.org FRIDAY FILE: Kurds living in Turkey mainly inhabit the East and South-East of Turkey. They are the largest ethnic minority in the country […]
New York Times: Turkey’s Kurds Slowly Build Cultural Autonomy By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: June 1, 2011, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/turkeys-kurds-slowly-build-cultural-autonomy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 BALEFUL love song wafted from the Vizyon Muzik A Market. Not so long ago playing Kurdish music over a loudspeaker into the streets here might have provoked the Turkish police. Just speaking the names of certain Kurdish […]
An Analysis of Socioeconomic Situation in South-eastern Anatolia * Nurcan Baysal, European Parliament Speech, June 2008 Any single-dimension analysis would be insufficient to explore the present socioeconomic situation in South-eastern Anatolia. There are various circles approaching the present situation in the context of differing terms including ‘the Kurdish question”, “democratization problem” or “underdevelopment”. The situation […]
The Beri[1]Road to Development: On Gender and Development in Rural Turkey By Nurcan Baysal (Turkey) ***Published in the book “Telling Our Stories: Women’s Voices From Middle East and North Africa”, edited by Zeina Zaatari, Global Fund for Women,San Francisco, 2011. You talk about ‘rural development’. I don’t quite get what it means, but it would […]
THE KURDISH ISSUE IN TURKEY: THE RIGHT TO EXIST IS NOT ENOUGH… By Nurcan Baysal, Dilan Bozgan and Nina Henkens Published in SÜDOSTEUROPA Mitteilungen, 05-06 2011, 51. Jahrgang Introduction For the last few years there has been a general feeling of losing momentum and general ignorance of the Kurdish people and their problems. There are […]