ABSTRACT
Kurdish identity, representation, and human rights have been met with a wide range of outwardly hostile policies for decades. This chapter provides a brief overview of the history of cultural genocide, terrorism, political repression, and violence perpetrated by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people, with a focus on the primary Kurdish affiliated political party in Turkey (the HDP). It then reflects on how modern resistance to human rights violations leverages technology, particularly social media, to provide narrative testimony and to engage in political agenda-setting. Through both the computer-assisted content analysis of tweets, and human categorization of those findings, it was determined that HDP tweets fall into four broad categories: human rights, events, rhetoric, and people/actors.
