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İsmail Beşikçi
İsmail Beşikçi (born 1939) is a Turkish sociologist, philosopher, revolutionist, and writer. He is a PEN Honorary Member. He has served 17 years in prison on propaganda charges stemming from his writings about the Kurdish population in Middle East. Early life and education Beşikçi studied at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University, and graduated in 1962. After his military duty he became an assistant professor at Atatürk University in Erzurum. He prepared his first anthropological study, an investigation of one of the last nomadic Kurdish tribes, the Alikan, here, which he submitted in 1967 to the Ankara Faculty of Political Sciences. His second encounter with the Kurds was during his military service when he served in Bitlis and Hakkâri where he first saw the nomadic Alikan tribe pass through Bitlis on their migrations from winter to summer meadows and back. Professional career His book ''The Order of Eastern Anatolia: Social-Economic and Ethnic Founda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ä°skilip
İskilip is a list of districts in Turkey, district of Çorum Province, Turkey, on the left bank of the River Kızılırmak River, Kızılırmak, located at 56 km from the city of Çorum, 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Ankara and 60 miles (100 km) southeast of Kastamonu. It is the seat of İskilip District.İlçe Belediyesi Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023. Its population is 17,612 (2022). The mayor is Ali Sülük. Etymology Former names included ''Iskila'' (the name given to the area in Hittites, Hittite times), ''Asklepios'' / ''Aesculapius'' (in ancient Greek), ''Blocium'' / ''Bloacium'', ''İmad'', ''Iskelib'' / ''İskelib'' (the ancient name returning into use in the Seljuk Turkish era), and ''Direklibel''. Geography |