Mehmet Volkan Kasikci | Author at Al Sharq Strategic Research

About Mehmet Volkan Kasikci

Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı is a Ph. D. Candidate in Soviet history at Arizona State University. For his dissertation research, he lived in Kazakhstan for more than two years. Recently, he has been volunteering for Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights Organization, which has proved vital for providing information about Chinese concentration camps in Xinjiang. Atajurt has captured thousands of video testimonies with people whose loved ones are currently being detained in Chinese concentration camps or prisons.

14 May, 2019

Is the Gulag the right historical analogy for China’s concentration camps?
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Is the Gulag the right historical analogy for China’s concentration camps?

Mehmet Volkan Kasikci | 14 May 2019 | TR | AR

Human beings frequently turn to historical analogies in their attempts to comprehend contemporary developments. Although usually oversimplifying and misleading, sometimes a historical analogy is the only way to make sense of a new phenomenon.[2] China’s [...]

Is the Gulag the right historical analogy for China’s concentration camps?Mehmet Volkan Kasikci2020-08-09T14:39:41+03:00