The generation conflicht between the Kurds in diaspora

Authors : Avdo Karataş

Pages : 153-173

Doi:10.21600/ijoks.383397

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Publication Date : 2018-01-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The largest center of the Kurdish Diaspora in Europe is Germany. Kurds have migrated to Germany at different times but massively before Turks. Although the Kurdish population is not accepted by the official authorities, it is the third largest minority in Germany. Here they organized, educated, began some business and by the way third generation is raising their kids. Nevertheless the Kurds are not considered as an independent minority in scientific research and are not researched as such. So the scientific data on the Kurds are very few.   Both some researches and media and our research shows that : Boys and girls leave the house in a significant number of Kurdish families. Some of them commited suicide, some of them were killed and some of them were kicked out of their homes by their parents. And also some were forced to marry. This means that there is a problem between the children and the parents (conflict of parental and filial) in the Kurdish family. Kurdish youth from the other side are very active in the political arena. But what is remarkable here is that the social conflict of generation does not exactly appear in the Kurdish society. The purpose of this article is to examine folowing situation in general: Could the problems between the Kurdish generations be defined as the conflict of generation? And If there is a conflict of generation, why does not it appear in the Kurdish society in Germany.
Keywords : The Kurdish diaspora in Germany, conflict of generation, Kurdish social organisation

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