Güllistan Yarkın

Independent Researcher

When founded in 1978, the PKK defined itself as a socialist movement aiming to create a classless society through the formation of a new state-power. In the 1990s, the ideology of the PKK began to change and this transformation became apparent in the 2000s. The PKK has since completely abandoned its statist Marxist-Leninist national liberationist i...

This article focuses on the housing experiences of Kurdish migrants/working classes in a Turkish-dominated working-class district of Zeytinburnu in Istanbul since the 1990s. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the article argues that Kurds experienced housing discrimination predominantly in the forms of refusal of tenancy and the threat of removal f...

İsmail Beşikci Vakfı Kürt Çalışmaları Bahar Akademisi-1 İsmail Beşikci Vakfı Yayınları 2020

Executive summary Throughout the 20th century, the modern Turkish state has dealt with ethnically, socially, historically, and religiously defined groups living in the remaining Ottoman territory with different forms of integration and authoritarianism. It built a racialized social regime based on Turkish supremacy, and the state has ruled northern...

Interview with a Kurdish-Alevi woman

Interview with a male Kurdish worker.

hareketinin, özellikle PKK'nin Türkiye'nin Kürt bölgesinin ekonomi poli-tiğine ilişkin dönüşen söylemini, diğer geç kapitalistleşen ülkelerdeki toplumsal hareket-lerle ilişkilendirerek tarihsel bir bağlam içine yerleştirmeyi amaçlıyor. Bu amaç doğrul-tusunda şu sorulara odaklanılıyor: 1) PKK'nin ve Abdullah Öcalan'ın Türkiye'nin Kürt bölgesinin eko...