Knowledge, ideology and power. Deconstructing Kurdish Studies

The idea for this issue arose out of a seminar we organised, together with Jean-Francois Perouse, in 2005-2006 at the Institut Francais d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) in Istanbul on the ‘Conditions of emergence of the Kurdish question within the Turkish academic field’. We noticed that since the 1990s there had been a growing interest among Turkish scholar on the topic of Kurds and Kurdish questions. Until this very recent period, speaking about Kurds was a genuine taboo in Turkish universities...