Kurds, Turks, or a people in their own right? Competing collective identities among the Zazas

Muslim World

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 439-454

  Kehl Bodrogi, Krisztina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0006631191     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1999.tb02757.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Frederik Barth, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries. The Social Construction of Cuitural Differnce (Bergen/Oslo 1969), 10
2. Georg Elwert, Switching in We-group identities: the Alexvis as a Case Among Many Others, in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Die Kizilbas/Aleviten. Untersuchungen uber eine esoterische Glaubensgemeinschaft in Anatolien, (Berlin 1998), 78
3. Cf. Veit-Michale Bader, Rassismus, Ethnizitat, Burgerscnaft. Soziologische und Philosophiscne Uberlegunge, (Munster 1995)
4. By speaking about collective identity in this article, I follow Assmann, who defines it as "the image which a group builds up of itself, and with which the members of this group identify themselves." Jan Assmann, Das Kulturelle Gedachtnis. Schrift, Einnerung und politische Legitimitat in fruhen Hochkulturen. (Munich 1999)
5. While Ludwig Paul, Zazaki-Dialekt, Sprache, Nation? In Barbel Kohler, Eeligion und Wahrheit. Keligionsgeschichtliche Studien. Festschrift fur Gernot Weibner zum 65. (Gerburtstag. Wiesbaden 1998), estimates their number at two million, the group literature speaks about five or six million Zazaki-speakers
6. Oskar Mann, mundarten der Zaza, hauptsachlich aus Siverek und Kor Kurdisch-Persische Forschungen III/IV, (Berlin 1932)
7. Terry Lynn Todd, A Gramer od Dimili (Also known as Zaza) ( London, 1985)
8. David N. MacKenzie, The Role of the Kurdish Language in Ethnicity, in P. A. Andrews, Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey (Wiesbaden 1989) and Paul, 1998
9. MacKenzie, 542
10. For a detailed discussion of Kurdish ethnic identity, see Martin van Bruinessen, The Ethnic Identity of the Kurds, in Andrews and "Aslini inkar eden haramzadedir! " The Debate on the Ethnic identity of the Kurdish Alevis in. Kehl-Bodrogi, 1997
11. For a detailed discussion of Alevism in Turkey, see Kehl-Bodrogi, 1998
12. For an account of the Kurdish Alevis, see Peter Bumke, Kizilbas-Kurden in Dersim (Tunceli Turkey)
13. Martin van Briunessen, The Ethnic Identity of the Kurds, in Andrews 1989, 615
14. Dersimi 1992, 24-25
15. and van Bruinessen 1997, 11. Dersimi associates these Khorasani origins with the popular Alevi hero, Abu Muslim of Khorasan, whom many Kurds believe to have been a Kurd, and secondly with Haci Bektas (the central saint of Alevism). Khorasan was felt as the homeland of the Alevis
16. Van Bruinessen, 1997, 11
17. Cf., Mehmet Bayrak, Acik-Gizli/Resmi-Gayriresmi Kūrdloji Belgeleri(Ankara 1994), 409-91
18. Reha Çamuroǧlu, "Some Notes on the Contemporary Process of Restructuring Alevilik in Turkey," in Kehl-Bodrogi et.al., 1997, 26
19. For a detailed discussion of the Alevi revival movement in Turkey, see Kehl-Bodrogi 1992, 1993; Çamuroǧlu 1997
20. and Karin Vorhoff, Zwischen Glaube, Nation und neuer Gemeinschaft; Alevitische Identitat in der Turkei der Gegenwart (Berlin 1955)
21. Çamuroǧlu, 27
22. As van Bruinessen notes: "Few, if any, Kurmangi speakers understand Zaza, but most Zaza speakers know at least some Kurmangi." "The Ethnic Identity of the Kurds," in Andrews, 613
23. Cf. van Bruinessen, Unity and Variety Among the Kurds (manuscript 1994) and Paul, Zazaki-Dialekt, 1998
24. Cf. van Bruinessen , Ethnic Identity, 21
25. Ayhan Kaya, Multicultural Clienelism and Alevi Resurgene in Turkish Diaspora: Berlin Alevis. New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 18 (Istanbul 1998), 46
26. Pamphlet originally in Turkish, printed most probably in 1992 in Germany
27. Meanwhile, Rastiye ceased publication and Ware took charge of Desmala Sure
28. Ware, 1992/1
29. Piya, 1990/12
30. Zilfi Selcan, Interview in Desmela Sure 9 (1993), 33
31. Scrbcstiye, 1997/1
32. Ebubekir Pamukçu, Tarihi Yerli Yerine Oturtmak, in Piya No. 5 (1988) 32
33. Seyfi Cengiz, Dersim Sorunu: Kirmanc-Alevi Ulusal Sorunu, in Desmela Sure No. 1 (1991)
34. Similar to Zaza nationalists, Cengiz uses the terms "ethnic groups,' "people," and "nation' synonymously
35. Cengiz, in Desmela Sure No. 1 (1991)
36. As in the announcement for a conference with the title "The Zazas: A lost people," held at the Volkshochschule in Bochum, Germany, February 29, 1996