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Jan Yasin Sunca
@jansun.bsky.social
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Political Sociology & IR @ulbruxelles.bsky.social #TheStateless #DemocraticConfederalism #DecolonialPolitics
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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · Aug 7
L’État belge a retiré la protection internationale de Mohammed Khatib. Génocide en Palestine, politicide en dehors de la Palestine.
Alors, quelle option reste-t-il pour les Palestinien·nes ?
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Le leader de l’organisation pro-palestinienne Samidoun déchu de son statut de réfugié
Mohammed Khatib était sous le coup d’une procédure de révision de sa protection internationale. Ce Palestinien arrivé en Belgique il y a quinze ans est la figure de Samidoun, une association dans le v...
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Innpeace Research Center for Peace & Conflict @innpeace-online.bsky.social · Jun 18
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 · May 10
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 · May 7
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.

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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 · Mar 29
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.
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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · Mar 29
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.
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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · Mar 29
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.
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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 · Mar 20
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 · Mar 14
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 · Mar 7
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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Artı Gerçek @artigercek.bsky.social · Mar 7
Ortadoğu’nun Kürt çıkmazı aşılırken

Suriye ve İran’daki gelişmeleri göz önüne aldığımızda bile, Türkiye’nin neden bu aşamada Öcalan ile bir diyalog geliştirip, onun ideolojik ve politik önderliğini kabul eden tüm yapılarla ilişki kurmak istediği daha anlaşılır hale gelmektedir.
Ortadoğu’nun Kürt çıkmazı aşılırken
Suriye ve İran’daki gelişmeleri göz önüne aldığımızda bile, Türkiye’nin neden bu aşamada Öcalan ile bir diyalog geliştirip, onun ideolojik ve politik önderliğini kabul eden tüm yapılarla ilişki kurmak...
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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · Feb 28
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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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · Feb 28
He says the Turkish parliament should now take steps, but what steps? Nothing specific has been publicly promised
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bianet @bianet.org · Feb 28
KONGRA-GEL Eş Başkanı Remzi Kartal, PKK lideri Abdullah Öcalan'ın açıklamasını bianet'e değerlendirdi:

"Önümüzdeki günlerde Önder Apo’nun umut hakkı süreci tartışılmaya başlanmalı, parlamentoda gereken adımlar atılmalıdır."
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Jan Yasin Sunca @jansun.bsky.social · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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 · Feb 27
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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Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social · Feb 27
Ocalan asks for the PKK to be dissolved and disarmed, in move that could reshape the entire region. Another seismic shift we never expected to see in our lifetimes. #Turkey #PKK
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Jailed Kurdish leader calls for group to disarm, in major shift that could shake up Turkey and Middle East
Abdullah Öcalan’s message, which follows four decades of guerrilla warfare, will have far-reaching implications
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