Diyarbakir Institute for Political and Social Research (DİSA) continue its researches and studies on the Use of Mother Tongue in Education. In this respect, the program named Advocacy for Mother Tongue in Education has been prepared to ensure the Use of Kurdish as Mother Tongue in Education. For this aim, a series of multilingual brochures named Mother Tongue First will be published to raise the public awareness and to enrich the current discussions based on sound data. The first of these bilingual brochures has already been published in Kurdish and Turkish sharing the same name with the series Mother Tongue First. Within this first brochure, topics such as the importance of the use of mother tongue in education, the relationship between mother tongue-based education and gender, revolutionary education, language policies and practices, linguistic interdependence, economic aspects of bilingual education and linguistic biodiversity have been covered through the abridged articles by worldwide known experts. We are happy to share this work of us with you. Click here.
dinsdag 17 mei 2011
HOU DE KOERDEN ARM! - ONTWIKKELINGSPOLITIEK IN TURKS KOERDISTAN
Nina Henkens - mei 2011
De Koerden genieten weinig faam, en als er al over hen gesproken wordt is het meestal in weinig flatterende termen zoals 'terroristen of 'separatisten'. Maar er is meer aan de hand. De Koerdische regio is chronisch onderontwikkeld. Het gewapende conflict dat de laatste jaren sterk in intensiteit is afgenomen heeft desastreuze gevolgen voor de welvaart in het oosten van Turkije. Ook internationale, neoliberale hervormingen waren niet bevordelijk voor duurzame ontwikkeling. De pogingen van de Turkse regering om te investeren in de regio over de hoofden van de bevolking heen hebben weinig of geen resultaat.
THE KURDISH ISSUE IN TURKEY: THE RIGHT TO EXIST IS NOT ENOUGH
By Nurcan Baysal, Dilan Bozgan and Nina Henkens
Submitted to the Prague Security Institute on the occasion of the conference 'Where is Turkey heading?', May 4 2011
Introduction
For the last few years there has been a general feeling of losing momentum and general ignorance of the Kurdish people and their problems. There are a few different perspectives to the Kurdish question in Turkey. For some it is an underdevelopment and economic problem, for most it is an identity problem. The authors argue that there is a need to consider both of them together, not separately. They also argue that the inability to openly discuss the main causes of the problems for Kurdish people, which is the armed conflict in the southeast, is hindering development and the peace process in a very important way.
The report will not consist of a theoretically based political analyses but will adress the everyday difficulties for people living in the Kurdish regions, which the authors consider to be the biggest obstacles for a durable peaceful solution of the conflict. The authors would like to thank the Prague Security Institute and the Heinrich Boll Stiftung for making the conference possible and inviting us to contribute our ideas and letting us participate in the valuable discussion on where Turkey is heading.
dinsdag 10 mei 2011
donderdag 28 april 2011
Nurcan Baysal: BEING A CHILD ON THE EAST SIDE OF FIRAT
Nurcan Baysal: BEING A CHILD ON THE EAST SIDE OF FIRAT: "As published in Birikim magazine, number 254, 2010 On the 1st of February, the story of Asliye and Zeynep who died on the r..."
Nurcan Baysal: DIYARBAKIR TODAY
Nurcan Baysal: DIYARBAKIR TODAY: "As published in Radikal 2 newspaper on 03/01/2010 Two days left till 2010. Diyarbakır ’s very sad today. I worked at the office till noon, ..."
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