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Le Monde Diplomatique Kurdî

I was honored to have my works “Homeland,” “A Blood Clot Ready To Be Served No 1,” “A Blood Clot Ready To Be Served No:2” and “A Small Man” featured by Le Monde Diplomatique Kurdî with many other great contemporary Kurdish artists.

These works are part of a series that explores suppressed Kurdish identity in Turkey. How does Kurdish identity develop and how is it malformed by social and state pressures? Kurds are the largest stateless nation; they number roughly 30 million and are mostly divided between Iran, Syria, Iraq and Turkey. In each of these countries, Kurdish identity and communities have traditionally been suppressed, lest a pan-Kurdish movement emerge and challenge each of these nations. They have become a borderlands community. In the context of such suppression and active division, what does homeland mean? What does it represent? Where can we find it? If it exists only in the minds of Kurds, how is it understood and conceptualized differently?

It also explores the effects of militarism on civil society and social bonds. How does a society’s worship of military culture dehumanize its members? What does it mean for societal relations when we do not see individuals but only stereotyped, homogenized groups?Check out more at ahmetarslan

And lastly, they invite the viewer to consider if racism tastes the same everywhere in the world, even though it might manifest itself in different ways.