| ID | 146800 |
| Title Proper | On the borders of the Turkish and Iranian nation-states |
| Other Title Information | the story of Ferzende and Besra |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Yuksel, Metin |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Following the First World War, empires were replaced with nation-states for good and the map of the Middle East was redrawn. Traced back to the final decades of the nineteenth century, Kurdish nationalism did not result in a nation-state in the modern Middle East. Therefore, the Kurds inhabiting the borderlands of the four nation-states of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria came to be perceived as ‘trouble’ by these nation-states. Through the use of a wide array of published and unpublished Kurdish, Turkish, Persian and French archival documents, memoirs and oral and written literary pieces, this article unearths the role of a Kurdish tribal chief by the name of Ferzende in Mount Ararat Revolt in the late 1920s and early 1930s against the Turkish and Iranian nation-states. An exceptional contribution of this study is its exploration of the petition submitted to the Iranian Parliament by Ferzende's wife Besra. This study thus is a fresh contribution to the study of social history of the Middle East from the margins.
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| `In' analytical Note | Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 52, No.4; Jul 2016: p.656-676 |
| Journal Source | Middle Eastern Studies 2016-08 52, 4 |
| Key Words | Border Dispute ; Turkish ; Iranian Nation-States ; Ferzende ; Besra |