The cultural imperialism thesis that emerged in late 20th century focused on inequalities in the West driven global flow of culture and communication, and how that adversely affected the cultural conditions of nations in the so called Third World. However, the core–periphery dynamic at the root of cultural imperialism has not merely been confined to the transnational level, from the West to the Rest. It has existed at the national level as well. Conducting a historical examination of state policy vis-à-vis Kurdish culture in Turkey, and drawing on the theories of cultural imperialism, internal colonialism and nationalism, I develop the concept of internal cultural imperialism to capture the state of severe center peripheral cultural imbalance that has been a product of Turkish nationalist ideology and its policies of cultural homogenization. In hegemonic condition, the state’s ultimate goal has been to subjugate and/or possibly eradicate the cultures of non-core groups within its territory.

The target of the research to identify the trust factors represented by (communication, competence, Service Quality) and its impact on the satisfaction of patients private medical clinics in the city of Ramadi, and for the purpose of achieving research objectives and reaching answers to questions (study problem), the Researchersadopted the analytical descriptive approach, a questionnaire was designed as a key tool for collecting preliminary data, and using the method (method) random sample, distributed (384) questionnaire forms to patients reviewing private medical clinics in the city, Of these, 368 were recovered, of which 11 were not eligible (invalid), bringing the number of questionnaires valid for statistical analysis (357) to 357, i.e. a response rate (93%) of recovered questionnaires, and the data analysis and statistically processed by the program (SPSS.V.26) as well as the statistical program (AMOS.V.26) , the most prominent findings of the research were the existence of a correlation and a positive effect with statistical significance between the factors Trust and patient satisfaction In addition, the results showed that the level of Trust of patients through their factors in the private medical clinics researched was at a (medium) level, as the contact came first and then solved the Competence second and the Service Quality iii, as well as the level of patient satisfaction with the medical services provided by the clinics in general was (average), and in the light of those results the Researchersmade a set of recommendations that could help medical clinic staff to enhance and increase the level of Trust of patients with them and strengthen them which reflects positively on the satisfaction of the patients and the permanence and prosperity of their relationship.

This article explores Facebook’s censorship of Kurdish political activism at the request of the Turkish government. I argue that Facebook’s censorship of political voices belonging to the marginalized Kurdish community is an articulation of platform coloniality, an outcome constituted by the intersecting of the social media giant’s global political economy imperatives with racialized and hierarchized conceptions of human worth. The effects of platform coloniality are exacerbated due to it being mediated by the Turkish nation-state’s internal colonial politics and militarist regional policies, thus intensifying the marginalization of Kurds inside and outside Turkey. Covered in a typical neoliberal discourse of freedom and human rights, platform coloniality represents a continuation of the age-old patterns of Western power and its flow toward the Global South.

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