This article aims to question the complex reading of modernity in the Kurdish space and its critical decolonial approaches to the power and “knowledge”1 of “colonial modernity” in the Middle East, but especially in Turkey. The colonially-constructed entity known as Kurdistan involves a certain intellectual contradiction among the dominant societies in the Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria) which contributes to the practice of coloniality (Vali 2011, introd. and 1–25, and Hawzhen Rashadaddin, 2015). The intellectual thought of colonial modernity in the Middle East in regard to the Kurdish region follows and has one thing in common with the thought of colonial practice: an act of concealment and ignorance of Kurdish existence. Jacobin intellectuals of the dominant society regard the Kurds as a part of those dominant societies (Beşikçi 2013a; Eagleton 1963; Bozarslan 2001b; Henning 2018; Yeğen 2014 and 1999). In this approach, the reflection of dominant and colonial modernity lies in the political and cultural authoritarianism which marks racial relations and the balance of power over the Kurds and their territory. Indeed, using the terms “subaltern modernity” and “decoloniality” calls into question this expression of colonialism. That is to say, this questioning gives us another possibility by encompassing the past and present of a colonial racial power system in the Middle East based on a political-cultural denial and an epistemic interiorization of the “Other society” and its knowledge (the knowledge of aboriginal people).