While dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography, extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish groups with competing and at times conflicting views and goals. The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, with an emphasis on continuity and change in the Kurdish Question, brings together a group of well-known scholars to shed light on this complex issue.

The term “cyberspace� that entered into our lives towards the end of the 20th century is defined as: “a global platform that consists of the network containing the infrastructures of information technologies with Internet, communication networks, computer systems, embedded processors and controllers�. When this term is analysed, it is seen that nearly all informatics systems minimize the human control and at many platforms, they are connected to each other. Although the term “cyberspace� is very new, it is like a living organism that is coordinated with scientific disciplines such as finance, defence, health, education, transportation and security, in all manned and unmanned areas. Our interaction with this organism covers almost all our lifespan. When looked closer, it is seen that cyberspace must be researched not only from technology side but also from sociology and psychology sides. So, welcome to the cyberspace journey that we prepared for you in our book What’s Happening in Cyberspace?

For migrant communities residing outside of their home countries, various transnational media have played a key role in maintaining, reviving and transforming ethnic and religious identities. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent ethno-national conflict in the home country. Janroj Yilmaz Keles here examines how this plays out among Kurdish and Turkish communities in Europe. He offers an analysis of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad mediated narratives. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent the ethno-national conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish PKK.Janroj Yilmaz Keles here offers an examination of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad narratives that arise. Taking as his starting point an analysis of the nature of nationalisms in the modern age, Keles shows how language is often a central element in the struggle for hegemony within a state. The media has become a site for the clash of representations in both Turkish and Kurdish languages, especially for those based in the diaspora in Europe. These 'virtual communities', connected by television and the internet, in turn influence and are influenced by the way the conflict between the Turkish state and subaltern Kurds is played out, both in the media and on the ground.By looking at first, second and third generations of Turkish and Kurdish populations in Europe, Keles highlights the dynamics of migration, settlement and integration that often depend on the policies of each settlement country. Since these settlement states often see the proliferation of such media as an impediment to integration, Media, Diaspora and Conflict offers timely analysis concerning the nature of diasporas and the construction of identity.

While dramatic changes taking place in the Middle East offer important opportunities to the Kurdish century-long struggle for recognition, serious obstacles seem to keep reemerging every time the Kurds anywhere make progress. The large Kurdish geography, extending from western Iran to near the eastern Mediterranean, and a century of repression and denial have engendered various Kurdish groups with competing and at times conflicting views and goals. The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics, with an emphasis on continuity and change in the Kurdish Question, brings together a group of well-known scholars to shed light on this complex issue.

The literature that explores the compatibility of Islam and human rights is torn between one approach that focuses on reinterpreting Islamic scripture and another that concentrates on reconfiguring Muslim sensibility. Since one cannot be understood without the other, both approaches fail to account for change within their respective domains. In Rethinking Islam and Human Rights, leading Islam and human rights scholar Ozcan Keles examines how social movement practice unknowingly and unintentionally produces Islamic knowledge on human rights (i.e., change) in both scriptural reinterpretation and societal disposition, through a focus on the interaction between the two. Rethinking Islam and Human Rights weaves together theoretical insights from a range of disciplines, while reworking process tracing methodology, to focus on a single case study analysis of the practices of the Hizmet movement (also known as the Gülen movement) to flesh out the dynamics of this interactive change and the centrality of practice-based knowledge production therein. In doing so, Keles demonstrates how and why social movement practice organically, unassumingly, unintentionally and often, counter-intentionally, produces socially transformative formalized Islamic knowledge on human rights. He shows how it is possible to account for the production, assimilation, legitimization, and externalization of Islamic knowledge through a single relational process on some of the most intransigent issues: apostasy and women's rights. Consequently, this book offers an important pathway to re-assess age-old challenges at the cross-sectional impasse of change, stability, and religious knowledge production, which extends beyond those associated with Islam and human rights.

Jedwedes Lernen der speziellen Chirurgie muss von der Tatsache aus- gehen, dass uns nicht abstrakte typische Krankheitsbilder, sondern kranke Einzelmenschen mit ihren Schmerzen und Noeten entgegentreten. Doch gruppieren sich an ihnen die Krankheitszeichen ("Symptome") zu indi- viduell wechselnden, im grossen und ganzen aber kennzeichnenden Krank- heitsbildern: " Syndromen ". Psychologisch-arztliches Verstandnis sowie die Kenntnis und richtige Anwendung der Untersuchungsmethoden werden durch Erheben der Vorgeschichte und Feststellen der Krankheitszeichen zur Abstraktion der chirurgischen "Diagnose" fuhren, die bei ausreichen- der Kenntnis der klinischen Krankheitsbilder unwillkurlich zur naheren Bestimmung des Krankheitsstadiums und allfallig bestehender oder dro- hender (fur bestimmte Leiden typischer) Komplikationen fuhrt. Zur Erreichung dieses Zieles fuhren drei Stufen der klinischen Unt- suchung: 1. Das Vorfuhlen nach vorstechenden Krankheitszeichen 2. Die UEberlegung der differentialdiagnostischen Moeglichkeiten 3. Die darauf aufbauende zielbewusste Untersuchung ad 1. Das Vorfuhlen (sozusagen die "Aufklarung") lasst nach Anhoeren der Hauptklagen und vorlaufiger Untersuchung die am meisten auf- fallenden Zeichen des Leidens erkennen. ad 2. Die beste Leitlinie, nach der sich nun der zweite (wichtigste!) tJberlegungsakt richtet, stellt die (erweiterte) Ursachenreihe der alteren Autoren (ALBERT, v. HOCHENEGG) dar: Jede chirurgische Erkrankung kann sein: 1. angeboren ("vererbt", "konnatal", "dispositionell") 2. traumatisch 3. entzundlich (meist akut: katarrhalisch, eitrig-pyogen, gangranoes; allergisch! ) 4. spezifisch (Tuberkulose, Lues, Aktinomykose; virusbedingt) 5. neoplastisch a) gutartig, b) boesartig 6. dysfunktioneIl (z.B. mcuspepticum, Steinleiden, Arthrosisdefor- mans) 1 Orator-Koele. Spezielle Chirurgie 2 Einleitung Dabei koennen die ersten drei als "einfache" Ursachen, die letzten drei als "komplexe" bezeichnet werden, da bei diesen auch endogen-konstitu- tionelle Faktoren wesentlich mitspielen.

With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. The majority of Kurds live in Turkey, where they constitute 18 percent of the population. Since the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923, the history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well-known and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much scholarly attention, little has been written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves. Alemdaroglu and Goecek's volume develops a fresh approach by moving away from top-down, Turkish nationalist macro analyses to a micro-analysis of how Kurds and Kurdistan as historical and ethnic categories were constructed from the bottom up and how Kurds experience and resists marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Contributors looks beyond the politics of state actors to examine the role of civil society and the significant role women play in the negotiation of power. Kurds in Dark Times opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds in Turkey, generating meaningful insights not only into the political interactions with the Turkish state and society, but also the informal ways in which they negotiate within society that will be crucial in developing peace and reconciliation.

With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. The majority of Kurds live in Turkey, where they constitute 18 percent of the population. Since the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923, the history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well-known and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much scholarly attention, little has been written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves. Alemdaroglu and Goecek's volume develops a fresh approach by moving away from top-down, Turkish nationalist macro analyses to a micro-analysis of how Kurds and Kurdistan as historical and ethnic categories were constructed from the bottom up and how Kurds experience and resists marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Contributors looks beyond the politics of state actors to examine the role of civil society and the significant role women play in the negotiation of power. Kurds in Dark Times opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds in Turkey, generating meaningful insights not only into the political interactions with the Turkish state and society, but also the informal ways in which they negotiate within society that will be crucial in developing peace and reconciliation.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

We all face trials and or tragedy at some point in this life. Kele takes you on a personal journey of walking through trial and tragedy. Keeping the focus on not the what, but the how to brave these seasons of life. Not just surviving through them, but finding our great purpose from them. To live a purpose filled life. Letting God weave the wanted with the unwanted into the fabric of our stories. You will walk this journey uncovering your trials and heartache in a new light. Seeing them anew, with the potential to learn and grow purposefully, instead of defeated by your present or past circumstances.