‘I would be sitting in the village room where people gather.’ Interview with Martin van Bruinessen

Abstract

I. Interview Interview conducted by Marie Le Ray, Utrecht, 23/12/06. EJTS: Could you introduce yourself and let us know more specifically how you got interested in the Kurdish question as a scholar? Martin Van Bruinessen: It is a story that I have told too many times and it has become perhaps too polished to be exactly what happened. The story that I have told seems to have shaped my memory. Anyway, I was a student of mathematics. I enjoyed travelling. I was going every summer holidays to the...