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... with its re-envisioning of the revolutionary role violence and nonviolence can play in liberation. Tracing the intellectual and political process that turned decolonizing Kurds from the pursuit of a territorial nation-state towards the revolutionary and feminist transformation of colonized sites and lives...

... and the minority Shias. The last (and I think the most important at this juncture) could be understood in terms ofethnic relations which here refer to dominant-dominated relations between Turks and Kurds. The second objective, reflecting upon the discourse of democracy in general, necessitates a dialogical yet...

... Political Science 2023 Middle East and North Africa fascism nationalism Islamism Turkey Iran Arab World Kurds Jews Minorities NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2023, VOL. 45, NO.3, 500-525 httpsdoLorg/l 0.1080/07393148.2023.2219170 Check for updates Problematizing Exclusionary Politics (or Fascism...

... successful and also most impressively portrayed are those in Latin America, Jackson, Mississippi, and among Kurds. The Latin American Pink Tide has its origins in Venezuela, where a massive uprising in 1989 was suppressed through the murder of hundreds (some say thousands) of people. To be sure...

.... And they still had their somber memories of defenseless civilian populations showered by his Scud missiles; of the unconscionable use of chemical weapons against Iranians and Kurds; and of the incalculable pains he 52 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE inflicted on millions of people who lost their loved ones and homes...

... an aggressive blow. Glaspie's casual attitude endorsed Hussein who later must have been genuinely surprised that his mentor would reject his own teachings. One incriminating piece of evidence demonstrating that Hussein was a brutal tyrant was his use of poison gas against his own people, the Kurds of northern...

... in irregular labor migration.34 In the meantime, there were also many Kurds fleeing to the southern borders of Turkey. However, Turkey's policy in accommodating these Kurds created a dispute between Turkish authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) during 1990s, as Turkey came...

...). The new governing coalition's political strategy relied on polarization of society across various camps, such as secular versus religious, Kurds versus Turks, and sexual freedom versus protection of conservative family values. This was an intensification of the AKP's political strategy in the pre...

... of Kuwait should have gone into Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power and prevent him from resisting the uprising of the Shia and Iraqi Kurds. The Kurdish crisis "was the defining moment of the new era above all, the primacy for the UN and the West of protection of civilians from local state and quasi...

... in reports on Iraq. He finds that US news media attention to repression and human rights abuses in foreign countries is driven less by humanitarian concerns than by the nature of the strategic relationship between the United States and the country in question. Iraqi Kurds killed by Saddam Hussein after he...

..." are the most prominent example of quota refugees, and began to be resettled in the FRG in 1979. Chileans, Argentineans, Cubans, Kurds and most recently Jews from the USSR and its successor states as well as Bosnians from Yugoslavia have also been treated as quota refugees. Soviet-Jewish Immigration...

... of mass destruction in other countries, they have used weapons of mass destruction on their own people," the phrase WMD was entirely absent from contemporaneous reporting on Saddam Hussein's use of poison gas against Iran and the Kurds in the 1980s. From the summer of 1982 through the conclusion...

..., and had viciously subjugated the Kurds in the North using chemical and biological warfare, events which Everest clearly and sharply documents, by the way. There are no good guys in this scenario. Why try to slip one in? Despite these minor concerns, Everest's book is an excellent reference for anyone...

... temporarily further strengthening the government's hand. The euphoria imlllediately following the Gulf war, however, was soon replaced by disillusionlnent in the United States and elsewhere due to the suppression of the Kurds in Iraq and Saddam Hussein's retention of power. In this atmosphere, one of the few...

... in the country on a collective rather than an individual basis as mandated by Article 16.2.2. The Vietnamese "boat people" were the most prominent examples of quota refugees who were resettled in the Federal Republic in 1979. Chileans, Argentineans, Cubans, Kurds, and most recently, Jews from the Soviet Union...

... to Iraq. The company further violated US sanctions in dealings with Iraq, Iran, Libya and Burma.89 For its part, just four months after the gassing of the Kurds, Bechtel helped Saddam's government build a chemical plant using dual-use technology. It was this plant that UN weapons inspectors later pointed...

... resistance against foreign invaders and analysis of reasons why an Iraqi insurgency will probably continue, see Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon: The Reconstruction of Iraq, op. cit. 37 There were widespread reports that the Kurds had actually captured Saddam and held him for some time before giving him up to US...

... than in the past. Not only have chemical and biological weapons been employed against Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Kurds and Iranians, but "conventional" ordinance such as mines, bombs, rockets, etc., have been targeted with both greater intensity and overall magnitude. u.S. bomb totals dropped...

... a platform hospitable to Kurds, women, the LGBT community, and environmentalists. In this regard, the HOP's enormous, if brief, electoral success in June 2015 is telling. After the Gezi protests, the HOP was the only political party that attempted to broaden its base to offer a platform that aimed to address...