Part I- Ismail Beşikçi: interest of Kurdistan should be upheld obove party politics

SBS Kurdish invited Turkish sociologist, philosopher and author Dr Ismail Beşikçi to SBS studios upon their arrival to Australia for a series of conferences and lectures. Dr Beşikçi is accompanied by Ruşen Arslan and Ibrahim Gurbuz from the Beşikçi Foundation.This is part one of the our interview with Dr Beşikçi.This interview has English voice-over by Dr Ronî Demirbag

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Dr Beşikçi spent 17 years in total in prison for studying the Kurdish society and defending Kurdish human rights in Turkey.

 

He has published over 40 books mostly about Kurds.

 

In this part of the interview we ask him about his first trip abroad in 2013, which was to south Kurdistan, his opinion on the call for referendum for an independent Kurdistan, and the current situation of north Kurdistan.