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Language: en
Pages: 344
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 434
Pages: 434
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-22 - Publisher: Routledge
The Alevis are a significant minority in Turkey, and now also in the countries of Western Europe. Over the past century, many of them have migrated from rural e
Language: en
Pages: 274
Pages: 274
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This book examines the development of identity politics amongst the Alevis in Europe and Turkey, which simultaneously provided the movement access to different
Language: en
Pages: 255
Pages: 255
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