{"id":17230,"date":"2016-05-13T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=17230"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:44:51","slug":"kurdish-political-studies-program-peace-activism-tumultuous-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/kurdish-political-studies-program-peace-activism-tumultuous-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish Political Studies Program: Peace Activism in Tumultuous Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17231 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Kurdish-Political-Studies-Program-e1463170790927.jpg\" alt=\"Kurdish Political Studies Program\" width=\"628\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Kurdish-Political-Studies-Program-e1463170790927.jpg 628w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Kurdish-Political-Studies-Program-e1463170790927-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/05\/Kurdish-Political-Studies-Program-e1463170790927-299x143.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, May 23, 2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">10:30 a.m.<\/span> <span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">to noon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Howard Phillips Hall, Room 302<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, a key country in the Middle East and a NATO member, has been witnessed a spiral of political violence since last summer. Dr. \u00a0Halil Ibrahim Yenig\u00fcn will\u00a0talk about the country\u2019s nascent peace movement in this context characterized by\u00a0 an intensified conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish\u00a0insurgency as well as suicide-bomb attacks by the self-styled Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yenig\u00fcn (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2013) used to teach politics at Istanbul Commerce University until his dismissal for signing a peace declaration\u00a0earlier this year. He is also a founding member and the general coordinator at Istanbul Think House (Istanbul D\u00fc\u015f\u00fcnce Evi- IDE), a NGO promoting free speech,\u00a0and the deputy secretary general at MAZLUMDER, one of the most prominent human rights associations in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 23, 2016 10:30 a.m. to noon Howard Phillips Hall, Room 302 Turkey, a key country in the Middle East and a NATO member, has been witnessed a spiral of political violence since last summer. 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