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This paper explores changing dynamics of intimacy, relationality, and difference among Kurdish
queer men living under an increasingly racialized securitization in Istanbul. Drawing on an
ethnographic study in apartment settings, I investigate how Kurdish queer men’s lives are
structured by an emergent security regime; how they situate their racialized and sexualized
bodies within the larger context of national security in Turkey and in the local economies of sex
and desire. Addressing these questions, I explore how they develop alternative forms of
friendship, sentient and emotional engagements, and ethics of relationality.