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Kurdish society and politics

This A narrower topic within a discipline. compares Kurdish society and politics across states, descriptively and with no party line.

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Faculty of Kurdish Studies
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subject

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  1. Haci Cevik (2025). From Konya to Europe and back: diaspora politics and the reinvention of Kurdish identity in Central Anatolia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI 10.1080/1369183x.2025.2556700
  2. Hemin Baqir Abdul (2025). Concept of Kurdish Society Socio-anthropological reading. Journal of University of Raparin. DOI 10.26750/vol(12).no(1).paper28
  3. The integration of Kurdish society into Modern Iran (2022). The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran. DOI 10.5040/9780755642274.0009
  4. Francesco Ventura (2023). Diaspora as socio‐material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement’s representations of homeland. Global Networks. DOI 10.1111/glob.12460
  5. Servet Erdem (2018). Political fictions and fictional politics: a comparative study of the political unconscious in the Turkish and Kurdish novel. University of Oxford. DOI 10.5287/ora-mj5vea8ro

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01Fields

The fields this discipline covers.

  • Tribe, sheikh and state
  • Kurdish political thought
  • Women’s movements
  • Institutions and economy of the Kurdistan Region
  • Language rights compared

02Classification

Where the discipline sits in the international lists of fields.

SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.25.6OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0312UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

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04Communities of practice

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05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Civic

    Civic education, rights literacy, statelessness help and dialogue.

  • Research

    Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Land and environment of Kurdistan

    This field studies the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests of Kurdistan and the risks they face.

    4 courses4 fields

  • Open

    Kurdish diaspora studies

    Kurdish diaspora studies examine why Kurds left, where they settled and how each community took shape.

    7 courses6 fields

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurdish society and politics. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-society-politics/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish Society and Politics.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-society-politics/.

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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish society and politics},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-society-politics/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-society-politics/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. From Konya to Europe and back: diaspora politics and the reinvention of Kurdish identity in Central Anatolia

    Haci Cevik · 2025 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossrefCC-BY-4.0

  2. Concept of Kurdish Society Socio-anthropological reading

    Hemin Baqir Abdul · 2025 · Journal of University of Raparin

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  3. The integration of Kurdish society into Modern Iran

    2022 · The Formation of Modern Kurdish Society in Iran

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. Diaspora as socio‐material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement’s representations of homeland

    Francesco Ventura · 2023 · Global Networks

    ArticleCrossref

  5. Political fictions and fictional politics: a comparative study of the political unconscious in the Turkish and Kurdish novel

    Servet Erdem · 2018 · University of Oxford

    ThesisDataCite

  6. Building a Society: Kurdish Transformative Mobilization in Times of Violence

    Rosa BURC · 2024 · Scuola Normale Superiore

    OtherDataCite

  7. Kurdish Nationalist Organizations, Neighboring States, and “Ideological Distance”

    F. Michael Wuthrich · 2017 · Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East

    ChapterCrossref

  8. The Status of Women in Kurdish Society and the Extent of Their Interactions in Public Realm

    Hooshmand Alizadeh, Josef Kohlbacher, Sara Qadir Mohammed et al. · 2022 · SAGE Open

    ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

  9. Zeki Sarigil, Ethnic Boundaries in Turkish Politics: The Secular Kurdish Movement and Islam

    Martin Van Bruinessen · 2020 · Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  10. Hedges used in Kurdish Political Discourse

    Kurdistan Rafiq Moheddin, Kawa Abdulkareem Sherwani · 2019 · International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  11. Kurdish Political Parties in Syria: Past Struggles and Future Expectations

    Bekir Halhalli · 2017 · Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East

    ChapterCrossref

  12. Kurdish Studies Summer School, "Kurdish Politics and Society: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives", University of Leicester (Royaume-Uni), 27-29/06/2016 — LIMITE : 30/10/2015

    Chargé De Diffusion Scientifique · 2015 · Bulletin électronique de l’Institut d’étude de l’islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (ISMM)

    ArticleDataCite

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