Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Kurds and Kurdistan -- Chapter 2 Colonial language governmentality in Turkey and its relation to Euro-Colonial linguistics -- Chapter 3 Colonial governance of non-Turkish languages in Turkey -- Chapter 4 Party, politics, and language: The genealogy of the anti-colonial Kurdish language movement -- Chapter 5 Liberal bracket in colonial history: Kurdish language politics during the peace negotiation process (2009-2015) -- Chapter 6 The split in the language sphere and the closing of the liberal bracket -- Chapter 7 Decolonial education in Dibistanên Azad [Free Schools] -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index