The European Union and Turkish Accession. Human Rights and the Kurds

Zeydanlıoğlu, Welat

doi:10.1080/14782800902904216

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“…One strand of this debate focuses on racism, informed by the originally US-American whiteness studies (e.g. Ünlü, 2018) or the anti-orientalist perspective (e.g., Zeydanlıoğlu, 2008). Yarkin highlights the existence of racist social (Yarkin, 2020) and political (Yarkin, 2019) structures.…”

Section: Colonialism and Kurdistanmentioning

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Sunca

2023

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This 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’ 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 Başûr (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’s people arising from the feeling of abandonment, by equating “we fight for humanity” with “we fight for Western values.” The reproduction of internal coloniality and Western superiority are, I argue, inextricably linked to the colonial nature of modern power.

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Section: Colonialism and Kurdistanmentioning

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Sunca

2023

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“…Our research indicates that the AKP, while appearing to challenge Kemalism and its relationship with the Kurds in its media rhetoric, was in fact mimicking it under the strong leadership and personality cult of Erdogan, also defined as Erdoganism (Christofis 2018;Dinc 2021;Yilmaz and Bashirov 2018). In the early periods of the peace process, the AKP aimed to manage its social media presence to market itself as a "softer" alternative to the Kemalist history and ideology of modern Turkey that had "already" denied and oppressed Kurdish identity (Zeydanlıoglu 2008). In this earlier online performance, the main opposition party, the CHP, was the main actor that was not only criticized but also openly blamed for Turkey's unresolved Kurdish question.…”

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From resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey

Dinc

Özdüzen

2023

New Perspect. Turk.

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This article contributes to the existing literature on the populist online communication of governments. We look at the role of the micro-blogging social media platform Twitter under the authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the wider Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) during the peace process. We carried out a rhetorical analysis of the Twitter posts of four key AKP actors – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Yalçın Akdoğan, and Efkan Ala – between July 1, 2012 and November 1, 2015. First, we show that the AKP actors persistently label the Kurdish political movement in Turkey and in Syria as a threat to the national security of Turkey, reflected in their rhetoric toward the remilitarization and resecuritization of Turkey’s Kurdish question within and across its borders. Second, we argue that the AKP used the peace process and various persuasive communicative techniques not only to consolidate Kurdish electoral support, but also to reach its aim to remove the Kemalist military–bureaucratic tutelage in Turkey that was replaced with hyper-presidentialism under the strong personality cult of Erdoğan. Third, we argue that Erdoğan’s increased one-man power has been reflected in the AKP’s branding itself as the only viable choice for the Kurdish region’s stability, which has blocked more constructive dialogue toward a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish question.

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The European Union and Turkish Accession. Human Rights and the Kurds

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

From resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey

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