Contributions

  • Happel, Klaus - Contributor
  • International Initiative, Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan--Peace in Kurdistan (Organization) - Contributor

Publication

2011 - Pluto Press, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

45,000 words, Guess

Page Count

180 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100956751407
  • ISBN-139780956751409
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011456859
  • OCLC Control Number758357981
  • Better World Books9780956751409
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Classifications

  • LCCDR435.K87 O33589 2011
  • LCCDR435.K87O33589 2011

Description

In his second book, Abdullah Ocalan applies the political and historical philosophy that was developed in the first volume of his Prison Writings to the Kurdish question. The book addresses the concrete political issues at the centre of the Kurdish question. Ocalan calls for a 'Renaissance of the Middle East' where the integration of democratic Western values and universal human rights with the deeply rooted cultural values of the Middle Eastern societies, especially the Kurdish, will form a new synthesis of civilisations. Abdullah Ocalan was the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). He was eventually kidnapped while in Kenya in 1999, and has been in prison in Turkey ever since. Ocalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping. From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the southeast of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, tens of thousands of PKK guerrillas took on the second largest army in NATO. The book begins with Preliminary Notes by Cemil Bayik, military commander of the PKK.

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  • Prison writings II: The PKK and the Kurdish question in the 21st centuryPaperbackPluto Press2011-01-01
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