DIFFERING PERCEPTIONS OF KURDISH ETHNICITY ACCORDING TO THEIR IDEOLOGICAL IDENTI

This research tries to comprehend differences among Kurdish ethnicity in terms of ideological/political identity. In this study, it is found that the Kurdish Society is divided within itself also from the ideological aspect, which separation is reflected in many fields. However the focus of this article is limited to show ideological differences among Kurds on the perception of democracy. We clearly see from the research that left wing ideologies and religiosity are redlines that divides Kurdish people. While left wing ideologies provide a ground of opposition to Turkish State and feed Kurdish nationalism, religiosity makes Kurds more loyal to the state and remote from ethnonationalism, although left/leftist have articulated religion to their discourse as a political strategy in recent period that makes the ideologic demarcation blurred. * Bu makale Crosscheck sistemi tarafından taranmış ve bu sistem sonuçlarına göre orijinal bir makale olduğu tespit edilmiştir. 62 Osman ALACAHANBetül DUMAN Furthermore, although Islamist and Conservative Kurds have commonalities like the place of religion in their private and social life, they partially stay apart in approaching to the current state and current government in which Islamist come closer to socialist. This study has been mainly based on a Field Survey in the central towns of Diyarbakır, which has known as Kurdish populated city in the Eastern region which include denominational divisions among Kurdish people. The mentioned survey was applied to 412 people with a face-to-face interview by means of random sampling in the field.