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“We have no village to return to in Kurdistan”: Kurdish podcaster Mehmet Uğur Korkmaz speaks to Medyascope
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“We have no village to return to in Kurdistan”: Kurdish podcaster Mehmet Uğur Korkmaz speaks to Medyascope

Turkey's metropole-dwelling Kurds stand at the epicenter of sociopolitical debates, and are increasingly seen as an electoral juggernaut with every election cycle. Yet within the Kurdish sphere itself, there is ongoing debate as to what extent they have become assimilated and 'Turkified'. Medyascope discussed these tensions and the nature of metropolitan Kurdishness with Mehmet Uğur Korkmaz, whose podcast *Kürtler Şehirde* (Kurds in the City) has garnered widespread acclaim. “We have no village to return to in Kurdistan”: Kurdish podcaster Mehmet Uğur Korkmaz speaks to Medyascope Medyascope

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