Özet:

There are different ways in which cultural differences are denied in Turkey. A most established among them is grounded upon the idea of ‘neutrality of state’, which argues that state is supposed to stand in equal distance towards difference. The other most effective form of denial is based upon the idea of Islamic universalism (Islamic fraternity), which has become hegemonic during the AK Party government in the last decade. Apart from these two major modalities, there are also the leftist and the liberal multiculturalist ways of denial of difference that operate through negating the constitutive link between culture and economy, identity and class, symbolic violence and economic exploitation, and ultimately between recognition and redistribution. This paper, at first, disputes this third kind of denial that operates through the forging of a strict distinction between identity and class, specifically by way of demonstrating the mutual constitution of class and identity within the context of post-coloniality. Thereafter, based on the exemplary practices and experiences carried out in Rojava, the paper examines the project of democratic autonomy –the kernel of which is universalization through localization- as a methodology of de-colonization that seeks to transcend the aforementioned distinction

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