Case study in Transnational Advocacy Networks

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Case study in Transnational Advocacy Networks

• Pro-Kurdish networks in Turkey and Europe

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Who is part of the network?

• Organizations in Turkey
• Human Rights Association
• Human Rights Foundation
• European-based Kurdish NGOs Cultural Orgs
• Kurdish Institute in Paris
• Kurdish Human Rights Project (London)
• Inter-governmental organizations
• European Court of Human Rights
• European Parliament
• European Governments
• Sweden, France, Germany
• Kurdish media in Europe Turkey
• Kurdish diaspora communities

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Goals of the network

• Place pressure on Turkey to reform its policies
  towards Kurds
• Creation of distinct Kurdish sense of nationhood

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How the network works leverage, accountability,
and information politics

• Legal pressure
• European Court of Human Rights
• Diplomatic pressure
• Military and financial aid
• More Access
• Alternative sources of information
• More Resources

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Network problems?

• Multiple Audiences
• What you say to gain support in one place can put
  you in jail in another
• Competition for resources
• Issue prioritization
• Diversion of energy away from grassroots activism