From Sheikh Sait to Dersim

Book Description by Şeyh Sait to Dersime While modernization transforms societies with its political, economic and legal effects and offers ethnic groups the dream of becoming a nation, paradoxically, it also gives the central state authority the opportunity to soften ethnic sensitivities with the opportunities it offers. In the case of Türkiye, it should be considered that the nationalist Kurdish organizations coinciding with the establishment of the modern nation-state is not a coincidence in this respect. The fact that the educated people who broke away from their local ties and came to Istanbul sought their ethnic identity in the communities believed to have brought civilization to the world tens of thousands of years ago must be related to the available opportunities. What the intellectuals who are trying to build a political Kurdish identity do not want to accept is that the ethnic group to which they belong has become integrated with the large masses in a period of almost a thousand years. (From the Promotional Bulletin) Number of Pages: 240Print Year: 2015Language: TurkishPublisher: Tarihçi Kitabevi