Why was the PKK founded?
The PKK movement began in the universities as a student movement and adopted the name of “Apoists” in 1977, then abandoned that name, and that of the “Kurdish Revolutionaries” and replaced that moniker with that of the National Liberation Army. In time, most of the leftist groups started to establish links with this organization because the basic ideology of the organization is based on Marxism-Leninism. These statements by Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the group at that time, may be regarded as the PKK’s first founding declaration:
On 20th August 1987, members of the PKK attacked the home of Şehmus Arık in the Bahçe arable field of Dargeçit district of Mardin with Kalashnikovs. They killed three children, two of them girls. The 4-month-old Hamza was asleep in his cradle when the bullets struck. |
We will investigate and examine Marxism and Leninism in the classic sense. We will perform a general analysis of the world, the Middle East and Turkey guided by these ideologies. On the basis of that perspective, East and Southeast Anatolia (North Kurdistan) are in the position of a colony. Turkey is a colonialist state. Moreover, the other parts of Kurdistan, are also under colonial rule of Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Other written documents setting out the PKK’s goals are the Path of the Kurdistan Revolution (Manifesto) published in 1978 and Party Program. The PKK’s objective is summarized as follows in the Party Program, or rather the Draft drawn up by Öcalan:
Kurdistan is divided into four by four colonialist states, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. The largest part is Turkish Kurdistan. Semi-feudal relations apply here. Turkish Kurdistan will be in the vanguard of the revolution. The characteristic of this revolution is a democratic revolution of the nation.The minimum objective is to build an independent, democratic and united Kurdistan by overthrowing colonialism. The maximum objective is to establish a state founded on Marxist-Leninist principles. The proletariat is the force that will lead the revolution. The basic force in the revolution is the peasant. The basic alliance is the one between the peasant, the worker and the intellectual.
The Statutes, published at the same time, set out the basic character of the party to be set up to realize the objectives described in the program. The entire ideology of the organization, which describes itself as Marxist-Leninist in the Manifesto, the Program and the Statutes is built on the concepts of “force and colonialism”. Accordingly, the utmost revolutionary violence must be employed against the colonialist powers and those colonialist powers must be compelled to recognize the organization. Engels’ “Theory of Force” was taken as a basis and the statements by Marx and Engels to the effect that violence must not be neglected on the road to proletarian rule were regarded as their guide.
Abdullah Öcalan also adopted those views and suggested the indispensability of violence, setting these views out as follows in his book The Role of Force in Kurdistan:…By implementing the guerilla war with the active war, we will try to destroy the military superiority of our enemy and make them withdraw even more and increase the speed of the development of the revolution in Turkey. In this tragic phase of equilibrium, if the guerilla war and the active war going on in Kurdistan is supported by a developed revolutionary war in Turkey as well and if a proletariat and civil uprising come up in Turkey including major cities, this rebellion could be extended until Kurdistan and the bourgeois army could be dissolved with the civil uprising in Turkey and Kurdistan, and thus the political superiority of the revolution could be turned into military superiority, the rule of the bourgeois could be overthrown and the revolution could thus be brought to victory…
The treacherous nature of the PKK is based on cowardly attacks from behind and other guerrilla warfare tactics. Communist guerrilla tactics have represented its main method ever since the PKK’s founding manifesto. |
Öcalan, wishing to see a “dictatorship of the proletariat” against the “bourgeoisie”, and stating that this is only possible through “revolution” and “terror”, describes the ideals of Marx and the policies of Lenin. Lenin describes his ideal revolution as follows:
A bourgeois revolution is absolutely necessary in the interests of the proletariat. The more complete, determined, and consistent the bourgeois revolution, the more assured will the proletariat’s struggle be against the bourgeoisie and for socialism… As the French say, “to change the rifle from one shoulder to the other”, i.e., to turn against the bourgeoisie the weapon the bourgeois revolution will supply them with, the liberty the revolution will bring...
Öcalan, who formulated his own philosophy in the light of these ideas, has never concealed his Marxist approach or the mindset by which he describes himself as the Lenin of this century:
...Of course later on, the Marxism and Leninism will be preferred. The ABC of Socialism (Leo Huberman) was the first classic that I have taken into my hands. I put it under my pillow when I read it and said that is it. I believe my preference for Socialism became definite in 1969.
Lenin represented it in the 1900s, and I represent the 21st-century socialism, and I am building the new socialism by fighting real socialism and imperialism.
Öcalan describes how the PKK was constructed on the Marxist-Leninisttradition and will continue along those same principles in the future:
The PKK has experienced a development in line with the Marxist-Leninist tradition. It is clear that from then on it will take shape on the basis of that legacy, which is inseparable in the way that flesh is joined to bone.
In an address on May 1st, 1982, he said:
Öcalan, 1 Mayıs 1982 yılında yaptığı konuşmasında ise şunları söylemiştir:
Yet we should be well aware of the fact that if the history of Kurdistan desires to keep up with the times, it has to be founded completely on the fact of the working class. No matter what unsuitable conditions it may live under, IT MUST BE BASED on the objective force of the working class, and ON MARXISM-LENINISM, its science and guide to action; AND NOTE THAT THE REASON FOR OUR EXISTENCE IS TOTALLY GROUNDED IN THAT FACT... If those tribal walls, those feudal fences had not been breached, MARXISM-LENINISM, THE MODERN AND THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY WAY OF THINKING would never have entered our heads.
Öcalan himself states that the PKK is a Marxist-Leninist organization. That ideology remains unchanged today. |
The first flag used by the PKK was a red communist one with the symbols of the hammer and sickle. Party congresses were held under posters of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. The flag and slogans have today been changed with the adoption of an imperialist mask. The mentality, however, is exactly the same. |
In order to see how the terror organization is a communist one we also need to look at the Darwinist and communist expressions in the PKK manifesto on its official web site:
Communality is a form of being of the human species. The process of the human species evolving into a human beings after its breaking away from its animal-like ancestors and the level of its communality go hand in hand. There is no individual life other than communal life.
Dialectical dualities, the language of the universal system, flow by becoming richer or poorer in societal change and development.
Source: http://www.pkkonline.com/tr/index.php?sys=article&artID=200
Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK terror organization, openly espoused Leninist, communist views until the 1990s. Red communist flags and posters of Lenin, Marx and Engels were prominent at party congresses held before the ‘90s. The change of identity in the form of a transition to imperialism after the ‘90s is entirely deceptive. This change, carried out in order to curry favor with the U.S., is intended to attract U.S. support only until the establishment of an independent state. The state to be set up with U.S. backing will be a communist one aiming to rule the entire world. The U.S. is unaware that it is supporting the aim of a communist state.
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The imperialist mask used by the PKK today has deceived many people both in the West and in Turkey. The fact is, however, that the PKK has renounced none of its ideology and objectives. It is still determined to seize land from Turkey, to entirely eliminate the Turkish state, which it regards as colonialist, and to establish a state in those lands instead. Indeed, the PKK returned to its cowardly attacks at the first available opportunity, initiated bloody terror attacks as required by its communist ideology, and shown its true face by immediately altering the impression it gave of being a ‘dove of peace’. It is essential that the West immediately realize the scale of this deception and see the kind of nightmare that the PKK could inflict, not just on Turkey and the Middle east, but on the whole world. |
Although the PKK has donned an imperialist mask, the initial training given to young people in the caves is still Darwinist and Marxist-Leninist education. The method employed is based on Marxist propaganda at every available opportunity. No activity is currently taking place against the ideology of the PKK in Turkey, and no young generation capable of responding scientifically to false Darwinist and Marxist ideology is being produced. Because as in the rest of the world, Darwinism is also taught in Turkish schools, and the basic ideology of the PKK appears on the curriculum just as if it were true fact. That being the case it is impossible for an educational mobilization, the most important factor in demolishing the foundations of the PKK, to take place. As the ideology of the PKK grows ever stronger, no activity that might stop it is taking place.
When PKK militants join the organization the first thing that happens is that they are given philosophical and ideological instruction. This ideological training is the foundation of the PKK. Once such instruction has been given, the result is generations of people who regard human beings as a kind of animal, who think that there is no point to existence, who believe killing as necessary for survival and who regard conflict as a necessity. PKK thus became capable of anything for the sake of the ideology that gives meaning to their existence. The only solution to terror lies in showing that Darwinism, the basis of Marxism, is a fraud. A terrorist who sees that he believes in a false religion will lose all his faith, fervor and false aims.
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To the side can be seen an award given by the South African Communist Party to the leader of the separatist terror organization, Abdullah Öcalan. In giving him the award, the general-secretary of the South African Communist Party, Blade Nzimande, praised Öcalan for his terrorist campaign against imperialism and colonialism, and described him as a beacon of the communist and socialist movement.
As this shows, the communist movement draws support from communists all over the world. Since the movement in Southeast Turkey is a communist one, and since it perpetrates terror in its most ferocious form as a requirement of that communism, it enjoys constant support from communist countries and groupings until their dream of a communist world state is achieved.
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These explicit statements by Öcalan and the information in the organization’s Manifesto, Program and Statutes show that the ultimate aim of the PKK is to establish a Kurdistan founded on Marxist-Leninist principles. Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, which comprise that region, are described as “colonialist” states, and the PKK settled on a colonialist approach in order to justify its aims. Members of the organization adopt working class movements in capitalist countries as their role models and regard those who bring such movements about as their allies. Their aims are to bring about a “classless” society in an area established under the name of “Socialist Kurdistan” and a communal system. Their manifestos contain calls to arms for that purpose.
Violence is the basic tactic of Marxism and Leninism. Communist states, communist practices and posters and manifestos prepared to that end all point to violence. The PKK also seeks to achieve all its aims in Turkey and the Southeast by means of violence. |
One of the most important requirements of this objective is without doubt the desire to oppose all imperialist powers. For that reason, the policies and even the very existence of America and the pro-American West are opposed. The Manifesto essentially focuses on the aim of annihilating the American imperialist mindset. As required by Marxist thinking, the Marxist PKK therefore fiercely opposes the USA and all those it regards as imperialist forces.
Since the communist mindset wishes to oppose all imperialist forces, it opposes all the policies of the US and the pro-US West, and even their very existence. The way the U.S. flag is targeted on communist posters is a manifestation of this ideal |
The part of the PKK program titled “The Duties of the Kurdistan Revolution” speaks of the need to rejects any proposals for a solution (including regional autonomy) that may be forthcoming from the Republic of Turkey, which is described as “colonialist”. The aim behind that rejection stems from the idea of the necessity to break up the Republic of Turkey.
The basic aim of the PKK is to achieve political and military power by establishing a communist state on Turkish soil and to build a dictatorship of the proletariat through intense oppression of the Kurdish people. This is not our claim, but an ultimate objective in the founding manifesto of the PKK. |
The Manifesto sets out the objective of establishing military and police control over some parts of Southeast Turkey, by forcing the Turkish security forces to pull out of rural areas and to withdraw from the Turkish-Iraqi border, in order to be able to build a communist Kurdistan. Once liberated rebel areas have been established, attacks in cities and the spreading of disorder and uprisings throughout the region will be set in motion. The PKK's existing armed forces will be turned into a conventional army, whose aim will be to defeat the Turkish Army. As a result of all this, it expresses the expectation that the Turkish Army will ultimately feel compelled to abandon the territories described as “Kurdistan”.
Our reason for citing these details in the PKK Manifesto is to reveal that the PKK is a Marxist-Leninist organization whose aim is to wage war against all imperialist or capitalist countries, states and systems. The PKK is intent on establishing a communist state by “tearing apart” Turkey and neighboring countries with Kurdish populations. That is why it was founded and it has never to this day deviated from that aim.
As the world has changed, and borders in the Middle East have become more sensitive and the balances of power have altered, the PKK has, over the years, felt the need to adopt an imperialist guise. There are many reasons for this and we will be looking at these in subsequent chapters. The point needing to be emphasized here is the PKK’s Marxist appearance at the time it was founded and to prevent it being deceptive for many countries and intellectuals with its current imperialist mask. Beneath the PKK’s present guise lies a Marxist-Leninist terror organization intent on building a communist world state.
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