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Current status of Kurdish culture in Turkey. Ethnical and national identity of Kurdish people in Istanbul and Diyarbakir − study field research

Publication date: 15.11.2013

Ethnographies, 2013, Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 223-230

https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.13.019.1360

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Szymon Knitter
University of Gdańsk
ul. Bażyńskiego 1a 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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Current status of Kurdish culture in Turkey. Ethnical and national identity of Kurdish people in Istanbul and Diyarbakir − study field research

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In his text the author showed the results of his fieldwork in Turkey, in the western Kurdistan. In his research, conducted on the border of the perspectives of anthropology and political science, he decided to compare the situation of the Kurdish people, the largest stateless ethnic group in Istanbul and Diyarbakir and the way in which they build their ethnic and national identity living in different places and in different environments. The author investigated how the Kurds preserve their ethnic customs and how they define their contemporary ethnic condition.

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Information: Ethnographies, 2013, Volume 41, Issue 3, pp. 223-230

Article type: Original article

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Current status of Kurdish culture in Turkey. Ethnical and national identity of Kurdish people in Istanbul and Diyarbakir − study field research

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University of Gdańsk
ul. Bażyńskiego 1a 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

Published at: 15.11.2013

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