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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.
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Leader Abdullah Öcalan "Our revolution is a revolution of beauty."
The century of women's freedom is the century of women's freedom
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "A free woman is like a sun."
The women's revolution requires that the fight against the mentality of mass murder, rape and rapist twenty-four hours a day at work, be strengthened in the moral and political field as well.
Leader Abdullah Öcalan Although male dominance is well institutionalised, men too are enslaved.
It is not possible to take the country without war
The women's revolution is the flower revolution. -
'Women's development is revenge for slavery'
2. Democratic confederalism is a non-state social paradigm. It is not controlled by a state. At the same time, democratic confederalism is the organisation of democracy and culture.
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017)
This war is not only a military war, but also a life war. It renews the society, renews the culture, renews the spirit, renews the brain and politics. Every Kurd knows that this is his/her rebirth.
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "Live life not with ease but with its difficulties, so that life takes on meaning. "
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "Freedom starts with self-organization."
Leader Abdullah Öcalan The era that we are up against—capitalist modernity—is one where society is maximally dissolved into the individual and the individual into “symbolic society.”
After all, the PKK, in all its historical processes, is a movement that has faced international conspiracies. I do not believe that such a conspiracy should be developed at the international level around any movement.
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "You are as free as the greatness and sincerity of your dreams"
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "The free woman means a free Kurdistan."
Gender discrimination has had a twofold destructive effect on society. Firstly, it has opened society to slavery; second, all other forms of enslavement have been implemented on the basis of housewifisation
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017)
The hegemonic powers also used religion and nationalism to preserve their supremacy. In all parts of Kurdistan, Islam is a state religion used as a tool for controlling the population. Even if these regimes embrace secularism, the entanglement of political and religious institutions is obvious.
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017)
Leader Abdullah Öcalan "Democratic youth confederalism is important. All young people could gather under one roof. Different groups could take their place. It could be a cultural, flexible organization."
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