By Muhsin Aslan Abdullah Öcalan’s long-standing, formative influence over the Kurdish political field is today undergoing what Michel Foucault would describe as an internal collapse of a disciplinary regime of power. For decades, Öcalan constituted an almost totalising centre—discursively and affectively. Yet this centre, rather than producing what Antonio Gramsci termed organic leadership and hegemonic legitimacy, increasingly resembled … Continue reading A troubled legacy: Abdullah Öcalan and the structural crisis of Kurdish political agency