Approval of the funding application for a DFG Research UnitRP7: Reclaiming the State’s Security Promise from the Perspective of Statelessness

30 September 2025

A DFG Research Unit funding bid that Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı has been a part of has been successful (please see here for the specific project he will co-lead).

"RP7 is about Turkey’s Kurdish political movement—in particular, its technical experts and their environmental practices of protection. Kurds are the world’s largest stateless nation. Turkey’s Kurdish liberation movement has held on to the desire for a Kurdistan state while also exercising sovereignty creatively in the absence of their own state. Their situation complicates singular narratives in relevant scholarship about decline: the decline of democracy, of liberalism, and of the state form of sovereignty."