Grim Legacy:The Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture

Haidar KHEZRI

Makale detayları

Grim Legacy:The Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture

Yazarlar:

Haidar KHEZRI

Yayıncı:

PAK AJANS Yayıncılık

Dergi:

Nubihar Akademi 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.55-67

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

2/2014

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000765224

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2822-3217

pISSN:

2147-883X

Özet:

 

Kurdish people have been described in mainstream Turkish culture as the «other», which stands in opposition to the Turkish «ego». Turkish culture has distorted the Kurdish image throughout history, and we see that process of distortion in Turkish proverbs, literature, art, cinema, etc., which often pictures Kurds as peasants, fools, thieves, miscreant, barbaric, devilish, hillbillies, etc. From an extra-Turkish perspective, this article connects the process of distortion of the Kurdish image in Turkish culture to the distortion of the Kurdish image in Persian and Arab cultures. It traces the transference of negative images from Persian culture to Arab culture, and finally to Turkish culture, as a legacy of the transference of power from the Persians to the Arabs and then the Turks. From an internal-Turkish perspective, the article also attributes a major share of the process of distorting the image of Kurds in Turkish culture to the political and military reports that were sent out to the Tiles of the Ottomans by Turkish military and administrative personnel present in the Kurdish areas.

Makale detayları

Grim Legacy:The Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture

Yazarlar: Haidar KHEZRI

Yayıncı: PAK AJANS Yayıncılık

Dergi: Nubihar Akademi 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.55-67

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 2/2014

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000765224

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2822-3217

pISSN: 2147-883X

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Haidar KHEZRI

Yayıncı:

PAK AJANS Yayıncılık

Dergi:

Nubihar Akademi 2014 Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.55-67

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

2/2014

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000765224

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2822-3217

pISSN:

2147-883X