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Podcast: Kurdish Forced Migration in Turkey

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Photograph Kurdish children in Diyarbakir, south eastern Turkey, May 2008. Photo: S L James.

This podcast was recorded in May 2008 and presents an overview of Kurdish forced migration in Turkey with a particular focus on forced migration in the 1990s. The work also covers the issue of Kurdish identity in the Turkish state. The podcast includes comments from Prof Joost Jongerden, Dr David Cuthell and Mustafa Gündoğdu as well as displaced Kurds in Diyarbakir and Istanbul.