1. The dictatorship system and the deification of its leaders
Dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Kim Il- sung, who ran the system in communist regimes, engaged in mass social conditioning programs that almost resulted in them being all but deified. The term “cult of personality” nicely encapsulates this idea of “deification of the leader.”
Communist dictators are often idolized to facilitate the obedience of the masses. The leaders are depicted as shining suns or as giant statues. Masses leaning in front of the statue of Kim Il Sung indicate the effectiveness of such propaganda today (lower right). |
Communist dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Kim Il- sung were deified in order to ensure the obedience of the masses. Sometimes the leader would be personified as a sun shining down on his people, while sometimes giant statues would be erected, and people would be made to prostrate themselves before them. All this was intended to portray the communist leader as a guide who could never go wrong and to encourage his being regarded as a so-called “divine entity” who would bestow happiness and joy on those who believed in him.
PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan also uses this tactic of deification, which began with Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, the first communist revolution.
One can see the effect of this tendency in Item 11 of the KCK Contract under the heading “The Founder and Leader of Kurdistan Democratic Society Confederalism.” The contract literally, may God forbid, depicts the head of the terrorist organization as a divine entity, portrayed as the leader of the Kurdish people, one who knows and meets all the people’s needs. Supposedly, he is the final arbiter, and all those beneath him follow him. Opposition to this supposedly divine being, the leadership, is grounds for war, as set out in Item 33.
Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the terror organization, describes himself in his book The Democratic Civilization Manifesto as a leader who thinks of and plans everything for the Kurdish community, who suffers for them and leads them to freedom and who strives to protect the rights and traditions of the Kurdish peoples in the Middle East against savagery in capitalist civilizations.
Öcalan’s efforts to give the impression of being a divine being in his book also attracted the attention of the prosecutor in what is known as the KCK Case. In the indictment he drew up, Istanbul Prosecutor Adnan Çimen described how Öcalan strove to portray himself as a mythological and genderless semi-deity:
Indeed, Öcalan even seeks to deify himself and bestow on himself the title of a mythological and genderless semi-deity by comparing “his departure from Urfa to the departure of the Prophet Abraham from the Hebrew people and his capture to the crucifixion of the Prophet Jesus.”
Just like other communist dictators, Öcalan attempts to show himself as god (God is beyond that). He attempts to influence the masses in this way. |
Therefore, Öcalan, whom the contract seeks to embody as the leadership, acquires both a physical and a spiritual identity, and is heralded as the sole and universal representative of the Kurdish people, while efforts are made to maintain Kurdish society at the level of a specific reflex by way of Öcalan...The way that the leader of the organization compares himself to the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) is also tragicomic. Because as the indictment states in various places, he holds the religious factor responsible for the backwardness of the Kurdish people and for other negative qualities. The effort of such a person to equate himself with concepts regarded as sacred at the popular level is simply misappropriation.
Selim Çürükkaya, one of the founders of the PKK who subsequently left the organization and relocated abroad, describes the disturbing psychology in Öcalan’s attitude as follows:
Öcalan, who describes himself as a great leader rather than just an ordinary one, tried to ensure that militants would remain eternally loyal to him by having them shout slogans such as “We are with you, heart and soul, o Chief!” every evening.”
One address that Öcalan gave to members of the organization is particularly significant in that context:
I am someone who regulates himself most wonderfully. I have made myself as knowledgeable, powerful and determined as a god until I attain the highest level of humanity although I started from the very lowest.
Indeed, technical surveillance of KCK members has shown that they regard Öcalan as a prophet. “Members of the KCK visiting the house where Öcalan was born, which they look at as a kind of ‘Kaaba’, said “We have walked around the Kaaba and become pilgrims. We have rubbed our faces in the dust.”
Something similar happened in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. The words “Greetings to the Prophet Apo. KCK” written on the walls of EŞİT-ÖZGÜR-YURTTAŞ (EQUAL-FREE-CITIZEN), an association known for its proximity to the BDP, in the district of İskenderpaşa provoked a strong reaction from local residents, and was later removed by citizens.
As we have seen, according to the concept of “the leadership” as spelled out in the KCK Contract, Öcalan will be regarded as divine (surely God is beyond that), and as a result of that, a communal system will be established under the control of a wide-ranging and bloody dictatorship. We can examine that communal system in the light of the descriptions provided in the KCK Contract as follows:
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