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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A closed door event that we organise to discuss the latest process between the PKK and the state. Stay tuned for what will come next: repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/a-process...

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Call for Papers Workshop on the coloniality of the modern state 🗓️ 12-13 November 2026 📍Université Libre de Bruxelles Deadline: 15 May 2026 Limited funding may be available to support travel & accommodation costs for participants sans institutional support. repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...

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Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale

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Sciencepo ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

[Out] "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power" New article out by Jan Yasin Sunca, chargé de recherche FNRS à SciencePo ULB (REPI Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale), in Political and Legal Anthropology Review. polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...

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The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power

Emergent Conversation 24 This essay is part of the series Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival, PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 24 By Jan Yasin Sunca This essay is de…

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Innpeace Research Center for Peace & Conflict @innpeace-online.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

At the InnPeace Roundtable, @jansun.bsky.social used South (Iraqi) Kurdistan and Rojava to show how modern nation-states map the world as a battlefield shaped by colonial violence, urging peace beyond the state through plural, autonomy-based coexistence free from domination.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A chapter that I wrote on anti-colonial struggles and the Universtiy of Rojava: Decolonizing university is not merely a discursive rhetoric but a fundamental component of an overall anti-colonial struggle. If you need a copy, let me know. Link: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

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Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

El viernes a las 12:00 h (hora mexicana) voy a hablar sobre el auge de la tecno-oligarquía y los debates sobre la soberanía digital. La presentación se podrá ver por Zoom. agenda.colmex.mx/Actividad/45...

Invitan al Seminario Interinstitucional
Geopolítica y Sociedad: Perspectivas desde América Latina
Serhat Tutkal
Tecno-oligarquía y soberanía digital: una perspectiva geopolítica
Coordinador Gilberto Conde
Viernes 9 de mayo 2025
Horario: 12:00 a 15:00
Híbrido
Salón 2250
Entrada libre

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Ceci ne concerne donc pas seulement Marie. La Turquie voulait devenir membre de l’UE en adhérant aux droits humains. Mais il semble que ce soient plutôt les pays membres de l’UE, dont la Belgique, qui deviennent de plus en plus comme la Turquie. 3/3

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Si le droit de séjour de notre amie Marie, chercheuse et militante féministe, peut être menacé aussi facilement, alors personne n’est à l’abri d’une telle éventualité. Aujourd’hui, c’est Marie, mais soyez certain·e·s que demain, ce sera peut-être vous, d’une manière ou d’une autre. 2/3

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Je me demande si la Belgique, comme une bonne partie des pays européens, n’est pas contrôlée par un « troisième pays » — en l’occurrence, la Turquie — en matière de droits fondamentaux. 1/3 www.rtbf.be/article/droi...

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Droit de séjour menacé pour l'activiste féministe Marie Gilow : des personnalités, dont les frères Dardenne, se mobilisent

C’est en septembre 2024, lors d’une convocation à la police, que la vie de Marie Gilow bascule. Selon ses...

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Student mobilisation strongly shakes the political Outlook in turkey, once again. And it has almost nothing to do with the organised “opposition”, apart from Imamoglu’s imprisonment being trigger.

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Olivia Arigho Stiles @oliviaarigho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Excited to host @hochstet.bsky.social in Bogotá on Fri 21 March as part of our ECO-DEM project on energy transitions and democracy in the Global South. @globalforum.bsky.social Prof Hochstetler (LSE) will discuss energy transitions in Amazonian countries 🌴🔋 Hybrid format. Message for details!

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Cevap aradığım sorular: - Ne oldu da “kardeşlik” şimdi pratiğe döküldü? - Bunun Kürt sorununun tarihsel bölgesel dinamikleriyle ne alakası var? - PKK nasıl ikna oldu? - Devlet (ve Bahçeli) neden söylemsel makasını değiştirdi? Buyrun…

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Many make similar points, without considering the process how we've come here. There was a year long process during which letters have been exchanged, meetings held and positions clarified among actors, resulting in this call. It should've beeen public, but it doesn't mean there is no pre-set agenda

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

5/The advancement of democratic society in relation to rights and freedoms in Turkey remains unaccaunted for. These and several other issues require close scrutiny.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

2/The regional conditions in which this discourse emerges are absent. 3/Öcalan's own conditions is also a central and decisive point of friction. 4/We should observe how the state reacts to this in practice (beyond mere rhetoric, as we saw with Efkan Ala today).

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

1/Rojava, Rojhelat, Bashur—in other words, the broader Kurdish political space—is not mentioned at all. Particularly the military agressions and invasion of Rojava is both foundational and decisive of this process.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

These were the contextual elements. But what is extra-textual is probably key to the gradual emergence of the "voluntary alliance":

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This effectively lays out that all of these developments are likely dependent on pre-agreed mutual steps—whether declared or not.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Most importantly, the İmralı delegation conveyed a message from Öcalan that does not appear in the text: the necessity of creating the conditions for democratic politics and adapting legal frameworks accordingly.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The text outlines the conditions that led to the PKK's creation (an undeniable confirmation of Öcalan’s previous analyses) but then argues that these conditions no longer exist, hence the PKK’s foundational meaninglessness. This latter point is clearly a demand by the state.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The reference to a Kurdish-Turkish unity of 1000 years (which is not historically accurate, sic!) and its deterioration under the conditions of capitalist modernity (over the past 200 years) alludes to these ideational parallels between the two structures.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Similarly, there is emphasize on "anti-imperialist unity," which is deeply rooted in both Turkey’s state discourse against "foreign powers" and the Kurdish movement’s stance against "capitalist modernity," which, for Öcalan, underpins class formation and nationalist exclusions in Turkey.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The emphasis on "voluntary alliance" is a founded in the slogan of the PKK—"fraternity of peoples"—and also aligns well with Bahçeli's "brotherhood" discourse, which does not irritate nationalist sensibilities either.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Öcalan suggests that all groups must lay down their arms. But which groups exactly? Does "all groups" include, for instance, the YPG/YPJ? Does it relate to the SDF? Does it include PJAK? I don’t think so at all.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Öcalan calls on the PKK to dissolve itself through a congress decision. However, the PKK had already dissolved itself and reformed as the ideological core of the broader movement. The movement ideologically led by Öcalan is certainly not dependent on or irreversably attached to names.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A Historic Declaration and Call by Abdullah Öcalan Here are some contextual and extra-textual details:

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

well, better avoid this kind of hyperbols, and ignore their authors, particularly the "Guardianised" versions of it that obscures the historical responsabilities and silences the victims... That is, there is potential but basically it is a continuation of what was put off 10 years ago by Turkey.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

First thing is first: This call is not the first of its kind and what comes afterwards will be decisive of its implications as well as implementation.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Öcalan calls for laying down the arms, calls on the PKK to orgainse its congress and to dissolve itself.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

the image of a historic moment....

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Reminder: happening in a couple of hours. Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime. Tuesday February 25th 8:00am Bogota time 2 pm CET 6:30 in Colombo zoom link : ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It is clear that we won't understand the full extent of it with this event, but Ayse's historical perspective stretching well beyond the modern international order will provide us with elements to think throughly about it. Anyways, you are all invited.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

LECTURE: @aysezarakol.bsky.social is visiting us in Brussels, to give a lecture on a topic that is probably the most widely debated yet less successfully explained issue of contemporary international relations: the crisis of liberal international order.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Kobane, a Decade Later: Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria and the Global War Regime. Speakers: Nazan Üstündağ & Jan Yasin Sunca Tuesday February 25th 8:00am Bogota time 2 pm CET 6:30 in Colombo @globalforum.bsky.social link: ulaval.zoom.us/j/6224697211...

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” — Audre Lorde

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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The University of Sheffield was so proud of its role in creating F-35s that it chose to cite the project as a case study in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This is what 'impact' looks like in our morally bankrupt academy. source: sheffield-coalition.co.uk

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Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Authoritarianism” is the limit of understanding the situation. Naming it correctly would open up new ways of seeing it. One would otherwise continue wishing for “the business as usual” which is the primary cause of so-called “authoritarianism”

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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Javier Milei advertised a new cryptocurrency called $Libra in a social media post. Prices shot up and then crashed a few hours later. He is being investigated for links to the token and being accused of fraud. @veronicagago.bsky.social and Luci Cavallero on the "Ponzi President":

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Un presidente Ponzi

¿Qué significa que son los mandatarios quienes devienen influencers para “crear” confianza para invertir en un activo digital? ¿Qué tiene que ver esta estafa especulativa con un modo de masculinidad q...

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CETRI - Centre tricontinental @cetri-be.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

💵 Ending US #dollar dominance alone will not end monetary imperialism. Only appropriate multilateral arrangements to clear international payments can meet Global South aspirations for sustainable development. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Ndongo Samba Sylla, @ipsnews.net 👉 www.cetri.be/An-Exorbitan...

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Skybridged those I follow on Twitter once again. I think we need to do that regularly....

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A debate on how of (and not negotiations on) fundamental rights of all citizens, and most importantly the ongoing isolation of Ocalan and other political prisoners, are on top of priority list. The contributions to the process will be easier if there is a relative freedom.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

It seems to be a pragmatic search for a POLITICAL reconciliation under US auspices. But it carries risks to be a “peace with Kurds” in exchange for regional “Turkish imperialism”… How the fundamental freedoms will be handled is the testing ground of this process.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The most important messages from this meeting, the "Kurdish-Turkish unity in fate", refers to an realpolitik obligation rather than willingness for peace. Previously this was a Kurdish discourse to motivate the state.

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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A historically significant meeting is taking place on #Imrali island, between #Öcalan and @demparti.bsky.social delegation, the first after the collapse of #PeaceTalks in 2015. Its importance is beyond possible political results; it happens asa a result of a process.

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