Democratic Confederalism: Difference between revisions

The [[File:PKK-icon-pcb.png]] Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was initially established in 1978 as a liberation movement that used [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] ideals. As the party became less radical over time, Abdullah Öcalan, one of its founders, drifted further from the organization and began looking for a form of [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialism]] that was more distant from the authoritarian characteristics of the Soviet Union. When he was captured and arrested by Turkey in 1999, he worked further on the Kurdish question using his access to numerous western philosophical texts. He eventually came across the works of [[File:Bckchn.png]] [[w:Murray_Bookchin|Murray Bookchin]], Friedrich Nietzsche, and many other philosophers, using them to create a new form of [[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|democratic socialism]] called democratic confederalism. In 2005, Öcalan published his first work, titled ''Declaration of Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan'', which laid out the foundations of his new ideology. Soon after, the [[File:PKK-icon-pcb.png]] PKK adopted his program and sought to put his concept into full effect. A new organization with the goals of spreading Democratic Confederalism was soon created after words known as the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK). The PKK has since fought with the Turkish military in the Qandil Mountains in Iraq and attacked Turkish police, military, civilians, and mosques inside the country as an internationally-designated terrorist organization<ref>[[W:List_of_designated_terrorist_groups|"List of designated terrorist groups"]], Wikipedia.org.</ref>. There were multiple attempts at peace deals and in 2013 a ceasefire was declared. This however did not last long as in 2015 12 PKK members were killed trying to cross the Iraqi border by the Turkish military and [[File:Cball-Isis.png]] [[Jihadism|the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]] did a bombing in Suruç, which the PKK accused the Turkish government of either helping or being complicit in. Since then the clashes have resumed and the fighting between the HPG (People's Defense Forces, PKK's armed wing) and the Turkish military in Northern Iraq and many on both sides have been killed.