Kurds are not stuck to solely the PKK and KDP within the nation state, as they do have other political parties that either support the Kurds in their strife for rights, or are represented by Kurdish leadership. The Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, is a political party represented by the Kurds. In addition to their belief and stance in favor of the rights of Kurdish citizens, they are focused on the overall equality of the country. This is expressed through their aim of the recognition of the Armenian genocide in Turkey as well as their support of homosexual marriage, the latter of which is strenuously frowned upon in cultures and societies dominated by the religion of Islam. The BDP seeks the embracement of a multi-cultural libertarian country of peace. In contrast to the PKK, a sect who seemingly is solely concerned with their own ethnicity’s discrimination, the BDP seeks to reject all forms of discrimination. A political party focused on peace for everyone, the BDP aims for a democratic and free society. However, much like the PKK, they do view that the country of Turkey is the homeland of both the Turks and the Kurds, and that in order to solve the Kurdish Problem there must be a recognition of those historical roots that leads to healthy and non-discriminatory coexistence in this mutual homeland. In strong contrast with the AKP, and the Kemalist principles that has plagued the nation state over the last several decades, the BDP believes that the population is entitled to build whatever identities they would like and be responsible for the laws of the country, as long as the laws correlate to an overarching law of peace and active participation of respect for all citizens. With this, there is a removal of favoritism on a pa...
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1 million and 5 hundred-thousand people were killed because of the Turkish government. Many of them were raped, enslaved and murdered. For instance, they drowned people in rivers, burned them alive, executed, etc. They also kidnapped children and sent them to Turkish families. In many places, Turkish people rapped and used Armenian women as slaves.
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When lines of identity inevitably blend, relative jurisprudence must be exercised. Lines make excluding circles and methods of excluding people from asylum; our international community divides into unwelcome and welcome nations. As discourse, cultural identity means translating beliefs and feelings from one culture to another. In the process of translation, a screen of cultural values filters understanding of the values and experience of the “other.” The simple word “refugee” evokes images and stories particular to a collectively defined identity, invoking “an image of the radicalized other” (Daniel 272).
An attack on the Syrian state would fall within the boundaries of the international concept of the responsibility to protect. The crisis in Syria has escalated by protests in March 2011 calling for the release of all political prisoners. National security forces responded to widespread peaceful demonstrations with the use of brutal violence. The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad refused to stop attacks and allow for implementation of the reforms requested by the demonstrators. By July 2011, firsthand accounts emerged from witnesses, victims, and the media that government forces had subjected innocent civilians to detention, torture, and the use of heavy weaponry. The Syrian people were also subjected to the Shabiha, a largely armed state sponsored militia fighting with security forces. Al-Assad continually denied responsibility to these crimes and placed blame on the armed groups and terrorists for these actions.
Turkey is very interesting country in terms of religious study. Geographically the country situated in Western Asia and partially in South of Europe, but it is considered Eastern Europe country. Geographic location has made a mark in the history of the country politically as well as religiously, there is presence of western influence on Turkey’s society.
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In Document 4, the Ottoman decree expresses a politician’s desire to make his subjects happy, declaring that all subjects are equal and they are all granted religious freedom. This kind of rhetoric from a legal decree parallels with one of the five assumptions of nationalization--that their own self-government is the one that serves the people’s common interests. The document also discusses the creation of schools, management of the police, court procedures and punishment against corrupt politicians. This goes back to how ideas of nationalism is created through the closer involvement of the government in people’s
The nation of Turkey is a paradox in the eyes of many who seek a clean break between the West and its associated values and culture and those of the rest of the world. Often considered an example held to demonstrate that Islam and Western Values are not incompatible, Turkey seems to straddle a fine line between being distinctly westernized while remaining rooted thoroughly in the culture and values of the Middle East. Turkey is one of two nations designated by as electoral democracies in the Middle East by Freedom House, along with Israel, yet the majority of the population is Muslim. For many, the current state of Turkish democracy, it’s longstanding membership in NATO, close ties with the West, and the relative cosmopolitanism of cities like Ankara and Istanbul seem to point to a Turkey which is clearly linked to the Western World, or indeed, simply a majority-Muslim portion of it. It would seem a natural outgrowth of such a view as to suggest that Turkish membership in the EU as fitting, given a Turkey being, in this view, a nation linked culturally and historically to Europe and the West. This attitude, however, belies not insubstantial criticism of this idea of a westernized Turkey. While Turkey is considered an electoral democracy that does have regular free and fair elections, it has seen a tumultuous history of military coups, holds laws incompatible with EU standards of human rights, and acts in defiance of international law with the continued occupation of Cyprus. Is Turkey a part of the West, and thus a natural EU member, or something entirely different. It can be effectively concluded that while Turkey is decidedly different from the Middle East as a whole due to its democratic institutions and a relatively westerni...