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Abdullah Öcalan Quotes

born 1949 Turkey

Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan (born April 4, 1949) is the founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). This organization is an internationalist and freedom-fighting organization fighting for the rights of the Kurdish People and a socialist independent Kurdistan.

Turkey
Non-fiction authors

Also known as: Abdullah Ocalan

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Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"If you trust yourself, you will liberate yourself. If you favour freedom, you will be its militant."

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"I remain committed, until the end, to the struggle for liberation and to the beauty and love it creates."

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"Democracy is governance that is not a state; it is the power of communities to govern themselves without state."

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
In the name of honour, man seized the position and rights of woman in the most insidious, traitorous and despotic manner.

For peace and brotherhood at the axis of a democratic republic, I am ready to serve the Turkish State, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

Democratic confederalism is open towards other politcal groups and factions. It is flexible, multicultal, anti-monopolistic and consensus-oriented. Ecology and feminism are central pillars.

The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017)

As long as it adheres to the democratic system and its state structure, every party can offer a solution without resorting to violence. There is no question here of either imposing a religion by force or breaking and shattering the structure of the state.

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"What we analyse is not the moment but history. Not the person but society."

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"The one who is as clear as light in his goals will also find a method."

Under the flag of 'superior Turkey identity' the entire society was sworn to an aggressive nationalism.

The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017)

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"For you to achieve great aims, you need to have a great spirit."

"Zilan passed me by his action. I will be a militant and a follower of Zilan from now on."

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“We can all learn something from the rose that protects its enchanting beauty with thorns.”

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
„Only those whose hearts burn with a passion for fire and victory can walk the same path with us."

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Democratic modernity is a system that serves the unique function of keeping the legitimate path to change open.

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"There is no life without freedom."

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"Art is the search for truth."

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"The liberation of women is the liberation of society."

The struggle of the Kurdish woman is the struggle of all the women of the world

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"To understand history is to understand the present."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abdullah Öcalan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.