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During the second six months of the project, we carried out our research on two different fronts: Kurdish acts of European citizenship and archival and media research for the acts of citizenship by the three other groups whose acts we proposed to investigate, namely non-Muslims minorities, youth, and women. We had already finished our media and archival research for the Kurdish acts of European citizenship in the first six months. There were three other components of the research on this topic that needed to be completed before the report on Kurdish acts of European citizenship could be written. The first… Read more >
During the first six months of the project we have conducted two different sets of research. The first set comprised of literature reviews on European citizenship and, relations between Turkey and the European Union (EU). Regarding European citizenship, we conducted a survey of the literature on three different and yet interrelated concepts: Europe, citizenship, and European citizenship as a temporally particular material entity that has emerged in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. This research has helped us situate our analysis on a firm conceptual ground, and differentiate our analysis from the existing literature while still being in… Read more >