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 […]
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DEVELOPMENT: WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Development: What’s in a name? Nurcan Baysal Published in Academicus International Scientific Journal ISSN 2079-3715 Introduction When you talk about development, it is important to reflect on what one understands by ‘development’. Development can be about economics, personal development, human rights, individual freedom, politics and many more things. And even more important, we have to […]
Diyarbakır, 22 July 2008 OVERALL STATE IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN ANATOLIA PROJECT First launched in 1980, the South-eastern Anatolia Project (GAP) was initially conceptualized as a programme geared to the development of land and water resources in the region and it was envisaged to build 19 hydraulic power stations and 22 dams along the rivers Euphrates […]