2. Religion under the mask of imperialism
(Surely God and the Qur’an are beyond what stated below)
Perhaps the most important of the elements in the PKK’s imperialist mask is religion. Until the 1990s, the Leninist PKK entirely rejected religion. After that, however, it began using religion as one of the most important ways of concealing its communist identity. The key point in making a good impression on Western states was to adopt a different policy toward religion, to which communism is fiercely opposed. The PKK began using a mask of religious devotion in a particularly effective manner after the 1990s.
Before turning to the details of this change, we need to understand the PKK’s basic attitude toward religion.
As we have reiterated several times, the PKK is a communist organization and communism appeared together with the ideology of atheism, and all communist leaders have in fact engaged in atheist propaganda. The communist state of the future must have abandoned the concepts of religion, ethics and the family. Öcalan, who said, “What Lenin was to socialism in 1900s, I am in the 21st Century”, openly expressed his ideas on the subject of religion prior to the 1990s, before he donned an imperialist mask, in other words. Some perverse statements about religion from Abdullah Öcalan read as follows (surely God and the Qur’an are beyond this):
- I went through a serious philosophical depression in high school. I declared war on God and became semi-divine when I emerged victorious from that war.
- Monotheistic religious ideologies are political ideologies from start to finish. Concepts such as religious speech, God, prophets and angels are the political literature of the time.
- God is a kind of medieval feudal manifesto, its basic law and declaration.
- Prayer itself is in general terms a piece of theater.
- Regarding the Holy Qur'an: “The third great version of the Sumerian mythology carried out at the ideological identity level, one that has undergone a transformation."
- We have nothing to do with religion. Our people must break away from God and ideology. I broke away from God after a long struggle. I overcame God. And was thus able to become Abdullah Öcalan. Islam has given our women nothing. We will replace it with socialist morality. "
- When we look at progress in history, we see quite clearly that they sought unity and power through the worship of GOD. Concepts such as the beloved servant going to paradise are the fantastical elements of the matter, the literary bits.
Leninism has been the ideology of Öcalan and the PKK right from the beginning. Lenin described the perspective toward religion in the Marxist ideology that he practiced as follows:
Marxism is materialism… This is beyond doubt. We must combat religion. That is the ABC of all materialism, and consequently of Marxism. But Marxism is not materialism, which has stopped at the ABC. Marxism goes further. It says: “We must know how to combat religion, and in order to do so we must explain the source of faith and religion among the masses in a materialist way. The combatting of religion cannot be confined to abstract ideological preaching”.
Marx’s idea of communism that was based on violence and disregarded religion and the family was put into practice in Lenin’s savage policies. |
Marx described religion as a tool in the hands of the ruling class used to lull the people into compliance; it was referred to by Marx as “the opiate of the masses”. Öcalan adopted the same view of religion in the light of the ideology he followed, regarding religion as a tool of the bourgeois and the state, which he regarded as a colonialist power. Indeed, the founding manifesto of the organization refers to Islam as an agent of colonialism and as a Trojan Horse installed among the Kurds with a covert influence over them. The metaphor of the Trojan Horse appears as follows in Öcalan’s own words on page 32 of the 1994 edition of the “Manifesto of the Kurdish Revolution”:
The Kurds have been subjected to foreign colonization in the spiritual sense as well. Islam is like a “Trojan Horse” whose role is to prepare for national denial in the heart and brain of the Kurd and to conquer the citadel from the inside.
As a result of its Leninist perspective, the PKK’s main idea was to establish a system under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and believed that the dictatorship of the proletariat could primarily be possible by the spread of irreligion. These words of Öcalan’s need to be borne in mind in this context, “The Kurdistan Revolution is part of a Revolution of the World Proletariat that began with the October Revolution and is becoming increasingly strengthened through the national liberation movement”. The primary method of imposing the hegemony of the proletariat for the PKK is without doubt through armed struggle but the first condition for this mentality to install itself within the PKK has always been regarded as an education intended to turn people away from religion. These words of Öcalan’s make this very clear:
[The] Proletariat could neither be able to realize a strong movement nor come up with a pioneering organization before the formation of dialectic historical-materialism. It is no coincidence that the great masters of proletariat have started this task from philosophy and brought forth the sturdy point of view of the proletariat by criticizing religion…
As all these statements show, both Lenin and his follower Öcalan failed to comprehend the beauty and warm spirit of religion and the moral values that God speaks of, for which reason they always imagined that the primary solution was to declare war against religion. The basic method employed by the PKK has therefore always been to provide a false philosophical education. That philosophical education is based on dialectical materialism, and along with that, contains an anti-religious discourse. This form of education is still employed within the PKK today.
The inhabitants of the Southeast of Turkey are the people of love with the loftiest moral values. It is impossible for them to adapt any other lifestyle than Islam and to live by the cold and loveless spirit of Marxism.
"EATING ANY KIND OF FRUIT FROM THIS GARDEN IS HALAL [LAWFUL]"
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Yet this is a waste of effort in the Southeast. Our people living in the Southeast of Turkey have fully grasped the warm and loving spirit of Islam. They are a strong people who embody the Islamic spirit of peace, affection and altruism to perfection. It is impossible for the people of the Southeast to adopt any other way of life than Islam or to abide by such a cold, terrifying and loveless way of life as Marxism. In fact, the PKK had to admit two very important facts in the early 1990s, when it began suffering serious losses: 1.) The Kurds are a religious people, and will therefore never support any irreligious ideology unless they are compelled to do so and 2.) the way to win the support of the West in the Middle East, wracked as it is by radicalism, is through talk of moderate Islam.
The fact that the Kurds refused to renounce their religion and adopt a Leninist way of thinking forced the PKK to change its tactics. The PKK, which explicitly rejected all forms of religion, began softening its language toward it, as required by its new mask of imperialism. But in fact, the PKK still intends to eradicate all religions. |
Journalist and writer Mehmet Metiner says the following in the context of this first fact:
I maintain that at that time (the years of its foundation), had the PKK not followed a socialist-atheist ideological line and had it not adopted a policy that directly reckons with the Kurds’ religious beliefs and values, there is no doubt that it would have had the opportunity to attract a far greater number of people... Because the Kurds have never, throughout the course of their history, renounced their faith or their national identity.
The fact that the Kurds would never abandon their faith obliged the PKK, which was unable to attract support, to adopt a religious guise.
The second point is that either the PKK really had the effect it desired in the West, or else the West wanted to believe this out of self-interest. Some Western commentators point to the Middle East becoming a bloodbath because of radicalism as the reason for that and regard PKK an ally that speaks of religion in moderate terms – either unaware that it is a communist organization or else totally ignoring that fact – as being highly suited to their own norms. Indeed, the French writer Bernard-Henri Levy makes this very clear in his own statements concerning the PKK: “...one finds a level of gender equality, a respect for secularism and minorities, and a modern, moderate, and ecumenical conception of Islam that are, to say the least, rare in the region.”
Note that the three factors cited, women’s rights, democracy and a moderate concept of religion, are things that the West has always wanted to see in the Middle East. These key and misleading factors have been carefully selected and used by the PKK as part of a tactical change. The West, on the other hand, fondly imagines that it has gained an ally with just those characteristics in a region of great strategic importance, one that it can make excellent use of. The fact is, however, that the PKK is simply deceiving the West.
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