Ideas, ideologies, action: interviews with representatives of Kurdish cultural institutions of the left-wing and Muslim profile from Istanbul, Diyarbakir and Mardin.
Karol Kaczorowski.
Jurnal Fritillaria Kurdica, Bulletin of Kurdish Studies, No 11-12/03.2016, P. 35- 48.

Ideas, Ideologies, Action. Interviews with representatives of Kurdish cultural institutions of the left-wing and Muslim profile from Istanbul, Diyarbakir and Mardin. The paper presents four extensive interviews taken in Kurdish cultural institutions in Istanbul, Diyarbakir and Mardin in July, 2015. The interviewees represent both leftwing and Muslim organisations namely Navenda Çanda Mezopotamya (The Mesopotamia Cultural Centre/Istanbul), Sumerpark Gallery (Diyarbakir) and Nûbihar (Diyarbakir, Mardin). The interviews translated into Polish, are a part of our ongoing research on Kurdish cultural policy, institutions, ideas and values. The aim of the interviews was to study the role of both left-wing and Muslim ideology in shaping modern understanding of Kurdish culture and cultural policy. On the other hand, following Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt’s theory on multiple modernity we also concentrated on the way how Kurdish culture, difficult historical and social experience.. [1]
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