[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...

New peiece: "The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power" I compare the PKK and FARC—the first of its kind. Part of PoLAR's special issue, edited by @adnancelik.bsky.social and @denizyonucu.bsky.social, patiently. 🙏 thank you!. 1/ polarjournal.org/2025/10/21/t...

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 ? www.lesoir.be/691887/artic...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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!

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…

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

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

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.

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.

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

the image of a historic moment....

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...

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.

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...

“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

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

“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”

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":

💵 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...

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

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.

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.

Kurds Under Threat in Syria as Turkey Launches Attacks and Kills Journalists After Assad Regime Falls

The fall of Assad regim, sure a tyranny of 60 years, does not mean the liberation of Syria. The capital falls in the hands of an equally tyrannical force and the whole world is just watching and celebrating.

The dictionary definition of #taqqiyah, a political Islamist trick to control power. See the actions of his soldiers in the last week. edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/w...

well, here is an image of the HTS: "freedom fighters," the "liberators" of Syria, the "rebels".

There seems to be an agreement between the YPG and HTS. Most important: YPG will secure the two Kurdish neighbourhoods in Aleppo and a civilian assembly will carry out the self-governance.

“It is chilling when you put the whole picture together as this report does, and it is a stain on humanity.” https://interc.pt/4eXT9kc

Il me paraît que les médias occidentaux sont quasiment complètement alignés pour blanchir le HTS. Selon cette émission, le jihadisme est acceptable tant qu’il ne vise pas l’Occident. 1/4 f24.my/Amls

📩Very interesting event by Transform! europe network "Trumpism as the New Normal? Understanding It Means Defeating It." ➡️Wednesday 11 December Register and watch it🔗https://shorturl.at/R53AJ

Kürt Meselesinde Değişen Bölgesel, Siyasal ve Toplumsal Dinamikler 📅 9 Aralık 2024, Pazartesi – 18.00 📍 Zoom Kayıt ve bilgi için: hakikatadalethafiza.org/haberler/pan...

1/ An aspect of developments in Syria is a violent negotiation in which the Turkish regime aims to coerce Assad and Kurdish mov. into consenting to its conditions. The so-called "Syrian rebels" besieging Aleppo are essentially the remnants of ISIS and al-Qaeda, heavily armed and armored by Turkey.

I think this hypothesis would definitely hold if there wasn’t such a great geopolitical uncertainty in the region. What motivates both the gov. coalition and the broader Kurdish movement is their respective considerations of the geopolitical transition in the region.

If you want to test the accuracy of the a "peace process" in Turkey, check the situation of arrested journalists. Either there is no "process" or this precisely is the process: the negotiation is carried out violently, with constant intimidations and blackmails.

Résistances et Universités: Avec @ojs.bsky.social, nous discuterons de la question palestinienne dans les milieux académiques. 🗓️Mardi 26/11, 18h30 📌ULB, campus Solbosch Table-ronde organisée par CEAE ULB et BDS ULB

Teröröyü devam ettirerek mi gazetecilik yapacaksınız?

This collective migration from X to #Bluesky tells alot. It articulates the truth that X, FB or others obscure. The digitalised humanity seeks to exist beyond the homogenisation by the giants of digitalisaiton; they seek to form a digital society against the homogenisation of social multiplicity.

Gisèle Pelicot : le nom d'un combat pour toutes 💜

Feel like old east Europe is awakening in new forms.

“Middle classness is not really an economic category at all; it was always more social and political." davidgraeber.org/papers/anthr...

"as academics think of themselves as critical, complex thinkers, they are less likely to accept the influence of total information warfare on their understandings of the world... Liberation, as Kurdish revolutionaries stress, is based on permanent struggle, even within struggle, even within self."

what we generally know as “democracy” is structurally devised to keep the master race(s) in power perpetually. And it should not be reduced to singular cases. It has only been obvious during the last decade.