Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Joan Smith/Kocamahhul

Joan Smith/Kocamahhul is a research assistant for the Strategies of Language Revitalization project in the Department of Linguistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

MER Article

In the Shadow of Kurdish

The arrest of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the militant Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), at the beginning of 1999 and the almost instantaneous wave of protest across Europe, in Australia and later within Turkey briefly increased the prominence of the Kurdish struggle for autonomy in Turkey. As one o

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