Martyrs and War Heroes
- Definition of "Şehit" and difference from religious martyr and secular war hero: mix of them
- RTE's interpellation for death and ways to affirm martyrdom (before afrin war and then the promise of "paralı askerlik"
- Owning martyrdom through continuous dismissal of others: destruction of PKK cemeteries
Gülizar Haciyakupoglu (2017)
"For instance, Nerina Weiss in “The Power of Dead Bodies” gives an example of the
classification of a deceased body as a ter-rorist by Turkish officials and as a Kurdish
fighter and a martyr by his relatives, and she draws attention to the political agency
of the dead body, the ties between nationalism and martyrdom, and to the use of
martyrdom as a political strategy (Weiss 161, 163)."
- RTE's interpellation for death and ways to affirm martyrdom (before afrin war and then the promise of "paralı askerlik"
- Owning martyrdom through continuous dismissal of others: destruction of PKK cemeteries
Gülizar Haciyakupoglu (2017)
"For instance, Nerina Weiss in “The Power of Dead Bodies” gives an example of the
classification of a deceased body as a ter-rorist by Turkish officials and as a Kurdish
fighter and a martyr by his relatives, and she draws attention to the political agency
of the dead body, the ties between nationalism and martyrdom, and to the use of
martyrdom as a political strategy (Weiss 161, 163)."
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