NEWS CENTER
On the anniversary of June 1. We are entering the 8th year of the resistance movement initiated by the Freedom Movement in 2004. In the meantime, seven years have passed.
For at least 18 years, the Kurdistan Freedom Movement has been working to solve the Kurdish problem or the Turkish problem without weapons. While between 1984 and 1993 armed revolution was the only way, since March 17, 1993 democratic political struggle has always been tried as the key to the solution.
The story is long, much written, much spoken. Provocation of the ceasefire, gangs, a state apparatus that had become fascist, this situation lasted until the imprisonment of our chairman.
Our chairman insisted on democratic political methods of struggle before and after he went to Europe. This insistence can be found in many documents. Moreover, all speeches of our chairman, wherever they may have been, were documented and submitted to our entire party structure. To the comrades who have any discussion about leadership in practice; Whether in the Middle East, in Asia, in Europe or in the mountains, they have always joined hands in terms of education and information. This is our principle of leadership. This principle is essentially the principle of transparency to our own cadres and to the democratic world public.
Yes, our chairman has made great efforts to solve the Kurdish problem through democratic politics. After he was imprisoned by the Turkish state in 1999 with a worldwide rare conspiracy, he continued his peace initiatives in spite of all provocations, even if it was to disturb the game of imperialist-capitalist-modernist powers.
He stopped our doomsday actions first hand and then withdrew our forces to the south of Kurdistan. Then, as a sign of his goodwill, he provided two peace groups to be sent to the mountains and to Europe, while he provided a paradigm shift by changing the long-term people’s war strategy. Instead of a long-term people’s war, he developed the legitimate defense strategy.
In short, the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, through our chairman, took all the necessary steps to solve the Kurdish problem and more. How many goodwill steps were taken. As many gestures as necessary were made.
But the convinced steps of our chairman, the guerrillas and the whole party, the Turkish state, especially Akepe, who came to power on November 3, 2002, considered them as weakness and, ignoring all good will and gestures, went step by step to attack against the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. He not only carried out these attacks in the mountains, but parallel to these attacks he wanted to liquidate our party by attacking those whose will was broken in the past and who were different from us in life. The main reason he gained strength in these attacks was the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2011, and he saw the counterattack launched by the U.S. on a world scale as an important support for himself. In fact, the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq must have raised high hopes in the Akepe government, making them even more ruthless in their attacks against the Kurdistan Freedom Movement.
When the Akepe government’s targeting of the freedom movement based on cooperation with the United States gained momentum and turned into an open liquidation plan and all peace efforts of our chairman and movement were ignored and wasted, the freedom movement entered a phase of re-evaluation. This re-evaluation process was essentially the path to the resistance process that began on June 1, 2004.
The guerrilla resistance that began on August 15, 1984, became an activity and a resistance to bring to light a people whose extermination had been almost fully implemented. Just like the first bullet fired at this obsolete personality created by the enemy, the August 15 bullet fired into the backwardness brought the Kurds back to the stage of history. It stopped the process of extermination of the Kurds and led them step by step from resistance to resurrection. At the beginning of the 1990s, when the Kurdish popular resistance ensured the Kurdish resurrection with the glorious serhildans (uprisings) – then called the Kurdish Intifada – it was time for the liberation of the Kurdish people. And this process, namely the process of liberation, was declared by the freedom movement with the unilateral ceasefire initiated in 1993.
The Kurds had come to the surface to stop being buried in history. As fallen comrade Özgür Kiti wrote in his memoir, Let the Mountains Speak, “The genie was now out of the bottle; it was not possible to put it back in.” And the Kurds now stepped onto the stage of history to secure their freedom and achieve their liberation.
Akepe, who came to power on November 3, 2002, was also the name for a liquidation attempt to prevent this act of ensuring the freedom and liberation of the Kurds. They were placed in the Middle East as a treacherous dagger in accordance with the instructions of Uncle Sam, the stooge of the USA who were the fathers of the Akepe money. These traitors and collaborators who came to power to implement the US policy in the Middle East.
The first thing that the collaborator power did was to attack the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. They introduced a new liquidation concept to convert all the created values again.
If we want to understand the resistance movement that started on June 1, 2004, we must first understand the concept of liquidation of the Kurdish people against the Kurdish people and their freedom movement developed by AKP under the leadership of the USA. Otherwise, the historical significance of the June 1 offensive cannot be understood. Even if it is understood, it is poorly understood.
In this context, the June 1 offensive was also the name for the beginning of a historical process as the Kurds’ resistance to defend their existence and secure their freedom. Just as August 15, 1984 was the name and slogan of the resurrection history of the Kurdish people, the June 1, 2004 resistance has already gone down in history as the resistance of the Kurdish people to defend their existence and secure their freedom by adhering to the freedom of the Kurdish people.
Kasim Engin
