Mass Violence and the Kurds: From the Late Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey
Time: 9:30 – 17:00
Place: NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks: Uğur Ümit Üngör
10:00-11:15 Panel I: From Abdulhamid II to the Committee of Union and Progress
Yektan Türkyılmaz, “Kurds as an Object of Ethnographic Curiosity in Armenian Political Imaginaries (1878-1922)”
Ali Sipahi, “The 1895 Massacres and the Perception of Kurdish Involvement”
Ayşenur Korkmaz, “Geography of Violence: Massacres in Sasun”
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel II: Violence and the Kurds in Republican Turkey
Naif Bezwan, “The Turkish Dual State and State Crime in Kurdistan”
Zeynep Kezer, “Ex Oriente Lux: Keban Dam and The Coercive Uses of Infrastructure”
Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya, “Political Violence of Kurdish Movement Since 1970s”
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel III: Political Violence and Ethnic Conflict in the 1990s
Evren Balta, “Counterinsurgency and Ethnic Defection: the Case of the Village Guards”
Ayhan Işık, “The Emergence and Reorganization of Paramilitary Groups in Turkey in the 1990s”
Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız, “‘Sad Tales’: PKK Repentants Confessing to State Violence against Kurds”
15:30-15:45 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Closing Remarks: Joost Jongerden
16:15-17:00 Plenary discussion
Contact Info: Ayhan Işık, Department of History, Utrecht University
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