Tag: Abdullah Ocalan
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Abdullah Ocalan: His Life and Legacy (Part 2)
DISCLAIMER: This is part 2 of a series of articles about Abdullah Ocalan. To read part 1, please read here! Into the Trenches In the early 1970s, Ocalan and other Kurdish revolutionaries took the first steps toward building the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Forming from the mixture of Kurdish nationalism and leftist politics at the…
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Abdullah Ocalan: His Life and Legacy
Part 1: Birth of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) On February 15, 1999, Turkish forces captured Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), in Kenya. Afterward, the Turkish government placed him in Imrali Island Prison with a life sentence. Initially planning to issue the death penalty, Turkey changed the sentence to life in…
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Origin of the Kurds
As we live in an age of nation-states, our world has tied the histories of entire peoples and landscapes to the identity of a single ethnicity in each corner of the world, typically with some form of government made to create laws and institutions to rule in favor of that group. Suppose you live in…
Dengê Çiyayên: Voice of the Mountains 