5. Founding a new system of state by destroying the current one

In the preamble of the KCK Contract, it is said that, “Kurdistan Democratic Confederalism is not a state system, but the non-state democratic system of the people.” The contract harshly and frequently criticizes the concept of the state and portrays it as the reason for all the evil in the world. The biggest reason behind this is certainly the fact that communism is completely against the concept of the state.

Even though in the preamble of the contract there is an attempt to provide a different description for the KCK, various provisions include definitions of structures such as “citizenship,” “tax collection,” “warfare due to necessary defense,” “duty for active participation,” “legislative power,” “executive council” and “judiciary system.” These phrases all describe a full-fledged state system and apparatus.

Due to their dominance over the region, masked militants of the YDG-H can freely move around Turkish streets with their weapons.

Indeed, in one of his books, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the terrorist organization, writes the following words: “…it is clear that we cannot overcome the problems only by working to destroy the state. In fact, in the Soviet experience, when the communists overthrew Czarism and built their own regime of dictatorship, the results proved to be utterly lesson-worthy.” Clearly, Öcalan and the KCK structure that he runs aim to completely destroy the state and replace it with a new state based on the communist ideology.

Abdullah Öcalan, Demokratik Uygarlık Manifestosu, (Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, Book 5), V. book, 2013, p. 16