“The Relocation of Kurdish Villages as a Process to Erasing Kurdish Culture.”

"Summary This research titled “The Relocation of Kurdish Villages as a Process to Erasing Kurdish Culture.” It is an intellectual review and an academic study in this field. The research deals with the Relocation of Villages undergone by Kurdish inhabitants from the moment of the deportation process to this day. Comparing its cultural elements and the impact of changes on it is a point of view and a glimpse into the perceptions left by the deportation process. Then it focuses on impact and changes that the process left which made deep, structural and rooted effects on Kurdish and cultural life and erased the sub-culture in particular (deportation as a negative process and the disintegration of a group of cultural elements) the value and behaviour they left behind since then until today. The Research community: the research comprehends villages of Halabja Governorate. The researcher chose samples, including (2) females and (2) males. In the elderly, each of them in the village of Hawraman where they lived and they were inhabitants of their villages before the process deportation and the period after the uprising and then rebuilding the villages. The results of this research: that the Kurds have an authentic culture and a real civilized background and have become a symbol of the characteristics and gained the identity of being Kurds. The deportation process is one of the destructive strikes at the center of this Kurdish culture and it has faded and washed away in some elements, and the Kurdish individuals have changed to a large extent from producing individuals to consumers. This research shades light on the viewpoint of the predominant thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Paul Baran. In the research the descriptive analytical method has been used, and then the historical method and the comparative method have been taken into consideration. Keywords: deportation, culture, sub-culture, compulsory housing complexes, the Ba'ath party, Kurdish society. "