Hako Sûr: Ein Frühlingsritual der kurdischen Aleviten und Armenier in Dersim
Hako Sûr, auch bekannt als das Fest des roten Eis, ist eine heute weitgehend vergessene Frühlingstradition, die früher von kurdisch-alevitischen Gemeinschaften in Dersim praktiziert wurde....
Dersim – Jiar û Diyar (Heilige Geographie)
Dieser Eintrag versteht Dersim nicht als bloße geografische oder administrative Region, sondern als eine sakral-politische Topographie (kulturelle Geographie), die im Zentrum der Kosmologie und des...
Jiare / Ziyaret – (Heilige Orte und Objekte) im Raa-Haqi-Glauben (Dersimer Alevitentum)
Das Konzept des Jiare – heiliger Orte oder heiliger Objekte mit spiritueller Präsenz – bildet ein zentrales Element des Raa-Haqi-Glaubenssystems. Es wird vor allem von...
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin is an exiled academic based in Germany since 2018, where he has focused on diasporic religious communities, particularly Alevi communities in the European diaspora. Prior to exile, he served as an Assistant Professor at Munzur University (Tunceli, Turkey), where his research on non-official religious and ethnic minorities -especially the case of Kurdish Alevis in Dersim- led to important scholarly contributions. His politic activism and critical scholarship resulted in his unjust dismissal in 2017 and subsequent recognition as a “scholar at risk” by the SAR network.
He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnology from Ankara University (2013), where he also completed his M.A. in Social Anthropology. Since moving to Germany, he has broadened his research to include the Alevi diaspora in Western Europe, conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork, especially in Berlin and London. He has led and contributed to several academic projects at Leipzig University (2018–2021, DFG-funded “Multiple Secularities”) and at the Free University of Berlin (2021–2023), where he also taught graduate seminars on the Alevis of Dersim. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Westminster (London, UK) in 2023.
Gültekin’s academic research is shaped around themes such as ethnic- and cultural-identity, political belonging, collective memory, folk narratives and beliefs, mythology, oral history, sacred sites, Alevism studies, Dersim studies, cultural heritage, migration and transnational communities, diaspora studies, ethnography and qualitative research.
He holds a Ph.D. in Ethnology from Ankara University (2013), where he also completed his M.A. in Social Anthropology. Since moving to Germany, he has broadened his research to include the Alevi diaspora in Western Europe, conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork, especially in Berlin and London. He has led and contributed to several academic projects at Leipzig University (2018–2021, DFG-funded “Multiple Secularities”) and at the Free University of Berlin (2021–2023), where he also taught graduate seminars on the Alevis of Dersim. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Westminster (London, UK) in 2023.
Gültekin’s academic research is shaped around themes such as ethnic- and cultural-identity, political belonging, collective memory, folk narratives and beliefs, mythology, oral history, sacred sites, Alevism studies, Dersim studies, cultural heritage, migration and transnational communities, diaspora studies, ethnography and qualitative research.
