I also discovered how the bitter rivalry between the two major Kurdish movements, one following the ideology of Abdullah Öcalan and the other aiming at an independent Kurdistan, played out. This includes rivalling attempts to capture the public attention and mirroring each other’s repertoires in the public space. This is not surprising for the people involved, but these microelements of interaction within the Kurdish diaspora have not been accounted for before.

I also discovered how the bitter rivalry between the two major Kurdish movements, one following the ideology of Abdullah Öcalan and the other aiming at an independent Kurdistan, played out. This includes rivalling attempts to capture the public attention and mirroring each other’s repertoires in the public space. This is not surprising for the people involved, but these microelements of interaction within the Kurdish diaspora have not been accounted for before.