Kocaköy / Karaz‎

Kocaköy (Turkish) or Karaz‎ (Kurdish) is a small town and district in the Diyarbakır Province of Turkey / North Kurdistan. The population was recorded as 5,764 in 2010.

Some of the rural population has been internally displaced to urban areas during the conflict between the Turkish Government and the Workers’ Party of Kurdistan (PKK). In 2017 curfews were declared and enforced by the Turkish state.

Economic Self-Governance in Democratic Autonomy: The Example of Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan)

This article aims to analyse the economic dimension of Democratic Autonomy, whose creation is projected to take place alongside politics, self-defence, diplomacy, culture, ecology and collective emancipation, and relates to the reader the arguments and experiences within the economic field.