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Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:00 - 19:30 British Summer Time (UTC+1)
CEFTUS Online Talk: Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, with Dr Gülay Türkmen and Dr Mehmet Kurt
About this event
This online meeting will discuss Dr Gülay Türkmen’s recently published book, Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity (Oxford University Press, 2021). Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey’s Kurdish conflict both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance. Türkmen’s study uses Turkey as a case study to understand how religious, ethnic, and national identities converge in ethnic conflicts between co-religionists. She asks a question that informs the way we understand religiously homogeneous ethnic conflicts today: Is it possible for religion to act as a resolution tool in these often-violent conflicts?
Contexts
Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash.
The storming of the US Capitol building came as a shock to most Americans. But to many Filipinos the political tumult seemed familiar. In the thirty-four years since the ouster of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines has witnessed a dozen coup attempts, dozens of corruption scandals, three impeachment tries and one impeachment trial, the ouster of one president by mass protest, and the near ouster of the succeeding one by an even more massive protest. What
was shocking was that the revolt happened in the United States and was instigated by an American president.