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Rosa Burç is a PhD candidate at the Center on Social Movement Studies as part of Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy. She is specializing in the political sociology of statelessness, with a focus on the Kurdish Middle East. She has worked as a teaching associate at Bonn University, after graduating from SOAS, University of London. Her work has been published in journals, edited volumes and international media like The New York Times, Die Zeit, AJ English and others.
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The contemporary Kurdish movement, which has gained wide international attention since 2012 as a result of its fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, originated in Turkey in the late 1970s. As a way of examining how this large and complex movement has unfolded in different nation-states and contexts of conflicts, this entry focuse...
This article discusses the transformative potential of Turkey’s pro-democracy movement which has emerged out of a long history of Kurdish political struggle. It looks at the development of a two-fold strategy that understands internal transformation as a precondition for democratic transition in Turkey. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has been...
Contributing to the discussion to what extent the constitutional changes under the ruling AKP constitute a new founding of the Turkish state or demonstrate a return to the “long 30s”, the chapter shows that despite a strong narrative of “breaking with the old”, we can trace a continuity of necropolitical violence as a tool to consolidate the nation...
The Kurdish-led autonomous entity called Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES)-also known as Rojava-considers women's liberation an imperative condition for shaping a democratic society. The practice of autonomy in NES shares strong resemblances with Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) models; however, it introduces a novelty in the ro...
As the international memory of ISIS' genocide against the Yezidi population of Şengal in Northern Iraq recedes, its victims have been left to languish increasingly hopelessly, in refugee camps with little realistic prospect of returning to their homes. Tens of thousands of displaced Yezidis remain dispersed across Northern Iraq, hundreds of kidnapp...
This chapter provides insight into the non-democratic elements introduced in the guise of a presidential system by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey. It further assesses the systematically taken steps by the government to create the conditions for regime change after the constitutional deadlock created by the June 2015 electi...
The societal project proposed by the Halkların Demokratik Partisi (Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP), is an attempt at circumventing authoritarian statism in Turkey by (1) participating in representative politics as an alliance of systematically marginalized groups in Turkish politics and achieving significant electoral success, (2) developing grassr...