Özgür Yalçın is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from Middle East Technical University (respectively, in Political Science and Sociology – title of master’s thesis: “Islamic Proletariat and the New Middle Class Dynamics in the Context of Gezi Park Protests in Neoliberal Turkey”). His PhD project is entitled “Radical Disobedience as a Democratizing Praxis: The State and Kurds in Turkey.” Özgür’s main research interests are political theory/philosophy, democratic theory, disobedience, epistemology, and philosophy of social sciences.