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Flag of the KCK, often used by Democratic Confederalists. Democratic confederalism [1] [2] (Kurdish: Konfederalîzma demokratîk), also known as Kurdish communalism or Apoism, [nb 1] is a political concept theorized by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan about a system of democratic self-organization [4] with the features of a confederation based on the principles of autonomy ...
Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader imprisoned in İmralı, Turkey, has become an iconic figure in the region whose ideology of democratic confederalism has shaped the region's society and politics. [169] Besides the parties represented in TEV-DEM and the KNC, several other political groups operate in northern Syria.
With his 2005 "Declaration of Democratic Confederalism in Kurdistan", Öcalan advocated for a Kurdish implementation of Bookchin's The Ecology of Freedom via municipal assemblies as a democratic confederation of Kurdish communities beyond the state borders of Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. Öcalan promoted a platform of shared values ...
Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed 25 years ago, is again a focus of attention in Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan's nationalist ally raised the possibility of his release in ...
The PKK's ideology started off as a Marxism–Leninism with a blend of Kurdish nationalism.Marxist-Leninists have a long history of hostility towards Zionism. [7] However, the PKK's ideology later shifted to Democratic confederalism, a left-wing, libertarian socialist, anti-capitalist, and internationalist ideology which also goes against Zionism. [8]
Abdullah Öcalan advocated for the implementation of "radical democracy" in the KCK. [14] Murat Karayılan, the head of the KCK after Öcalan, explained the principle of democratic con-federalism in his book Bir Savaşın Anatomisi (Anatomy of a War): The alternative is the independent self-declaration of the democratic confederal system. ...
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