A Lasting Memorial to Turkey’s Forgotten
Clare Busch profiles the Saturday Mothers, families of Turkey's disappeared, most of them Kurds, and their 25-year fight for truth despite bans and charges.
Memory as experience in times of perpetual violence: the challenge of Saturday Mothers vis-à-vis cultural aphasia
Özgür Sevgi Göral studies the Saturday Mothers of Cizre, Kurdish families who keep the memory of the 1990s enforced disappearances alive against state silence.
Trustees Instead of Elected Mayors: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Removal of Kurdish Mayors in Turkey
Serhat Tutkal shows how Turkey replaced elected Kurdish mayors with state trustees, sold it as efficient governance, and how voters still chose democracy.
The Science of Woman, Life, Freedom: Jineolojî
Targol Mesbah introduces Jineolojî, the Kurdish women's movement's 'science of woman', and links it to Iran's Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
Rebel governance and gender in northeast Syria: Transformative ideology as a challenge to negotiating power
Pinar Tank examines how Rojava's commitment to women's liberation mobilised women but created tension with tribal structures the movement depends on.