Research Article

Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century

Volume: 2 Number: 7 January 1, 2017
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Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century

Abstract

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, agreed privately by France and Britain and subsequently

extended to include Russia, was eventually revealed or publicized as

drawing boundaries in the Middle-East for the 20th century. The land in which

Kurds were living was object of this division.

One of the reason why the Kurds did not fight for their own interests was the

weakness of nationalistic feelings among them, while

the other was lack of concensus among their leaders

(emirs and pashas), which continued even after World

War I and leading to the Kurds’ exclusion from international

agreements. Consequently, four distinct Kurdish

societies emerged in four different “nation-states”.

Nationalism is bound to the idea of a ‘land’ at first,

and the people living in the same land are emotionally

close to each other even though they do not know each

other, which is determined as ‘imagined community’

by Benedict Anderson.

In this article the current situation of the Kurdish politics

and their “nationalism” are going to be discussed

by comparing them to the situation in which Sykes-

Picot agreement occurred with the recent happenings

such as “postponing national congreess”, “liberating

Shingal”, and “Kobane” fighting.


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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

January 1, 2017

Submission Date

November 10, 2016

Acceptance Date

December 10, 2016

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 2 Number: 7

APA
Keskin, N. (2017). Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century. Nubihar Akademi, 2(7), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.55253/nubihar.548043
AMA
1.Keskin N. Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century. na. 2017;2(7):43-64. doi:10.55253/nubihar.548043
Chicago
Keskin, Necat. 2017. “Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century”. Nubihar Akademi 2 (7): 43-64. https://doi.org/10.55253/nubihar.548043.
EndNote
Keskin N (January 1, 2017) Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century. Nubihar Akademi 2 7 43–64.
IEEE
[1]N. Keskin, “Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century”, na, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 43–64, Jan. 2017, doi: 10.55253/nubihar.548043.
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Keskin, Necat. “Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century”. Nubihar Akademi 2/7 (January 1, 2017): 43-64. https://doi.org/10.55253/nubihar.548043.
JAMA
1.Keskin N. Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century. na. 2017;2:43–64.
MLA
Keskin, Necat. “Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century”. Nubihar Akademi, vol. 2, no. 7, Jan. 2017, pp. 43-64, doi:10.55253/nubihar.548043.
Vancouver
1.Necat Keskin. Nationalistic Senses and Kurdish Politics in the Last Century. na. 2017 Jan. 1;2(7):43-64. doi:10.55253/nubihar.548043

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