Kentle başa çıkabilmek: İstanbul'daki kürt genç kadınların taktikleri

This thesis analyzes the coping methods implemented by the Kurdish adolescent women, who live in Dolapdere neighborhood in Istanbul, which is predominantly populated by displaced Kurds. Through using their own narratives and theoretical conceptualizations of Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau, I scrutinize the tactics of the Kurdish adolescent girls to appropriate the urban public space. I argue that there is a spatial variation between the space of Dolapdere and the urban public space outside Dolapdere in terms of the dominant nationalist discourses that oppress the daily lives of these women. In line with these discourses, they apply various tactics that create cleavages and breaks within ideologies and that enable them to develop sense of comfort and belonging to the urban public space of Istanbul. This research opens up a space to interrogate the way second generation migrants of the Kurdish community, Kurdish adolescent girls, construct their subjectivities in the discriminatory environment of the city.