{"id":1317,"date":"2023-03-31T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T10:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:19:31","slug":"commentaries-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Commentaries #24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation<\/strong><br>By Jan Yasin Sunca, Bielefeld University<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive summary:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div dir=\"auto\">his commentary seeks to examine the extent to which Kurdish liberation projects are free from the global colonial continuities. While the discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically centres on the Kurds\u2019 relationships with their immediate colonisers, it obscures at least two forms of colonial continuities in Kurdish liberation projects. A decolonial perspective built on the coloniality concept enables these colonial continuities. Firstly, the manifestation of politico-tribal domination in Ba\u015f\u00fbr (South Kurdistan, Iraq) is a common feature of postcolonial states that perpetuates the originally colonial power relations within internal structures. Secondly, the Rojava (West Kurdistan, Syria) revolution, which, despite its extensive criticism of orientalism, inadvertently reproduces the frustration of Rojava\u2019s people arising from the feeling of abandonment, by equating \u201cwe fight for humanity\u201d with \u201cwe fight for Western values.\u201d The reproduction of internal coloniality and Western superiority are, I argue, inextricably linked to the colonial nature of modern power.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/com\/article\/view\/2915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/com\/article\/view\/2915&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1680346405326000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2koMBoKOp7NqoZgHScPt0E\">https:\/\/journals.tplondon.com\/<wbr \/>com\/article\/view\/2915<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EU Turkey Civic Commission<br>www.eutcc.net<br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberationBy Jan Yasin Sunca, Bielefeld University Executive summary:&nbsp; his commentary seeks to examine the extent to which Kurdish liberation projects are free from the global colonial continuities. While the discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}