BEHDINAN – PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan said, “Leader Apo could not be prevented from breaking away from the organization and the people,” and underlined that there are mistakes and shortcomings here, and underlined the following: “The danger of this could not be seen by the organization. There is no fault of the people in this. The flaw was definitely in the Movement. The organization did not see the danger of breaking with the Leader. Therefore, he could not fully understand the reality of the conspiracy and the danger it entails, and unite with the Leader’s struggle against it. Leadership remained disconnected from reality.”
PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan answered ANF’s questions on the occasion of the anniversary of the international conspiracy launched on October 9, 1998 against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The second part of the interview is as follows:
How did the Kurdish People’s Leader react to the conspiracy attack that developed on October 9, 1998, what was the course of his struggle against the conspiracy, was his choice of exiting Europe related to this?
Leader Apo discusses the historically realized Kurdish reality, the Kurdish problem that was revealed by World War I, what it means for the Kurds, the region and the world, for states and peoples, and how the struggle to solve the Kurdish problem is full of challenges, global coverage and historical perspective. He knew very well that there was a problem with depth.
In fact, he made his 1973 Leadership debut on the basis of this consciousness. He made long researches and studies. He has read hundreds or even thousands of books. He studied historical reality, global system reality, Kurdish and Middle Eastern history. Therefore, it brought to consciousness what kind of a problem the Kurdish problem is. He also explored whether there is hope and chance for a solution. He saw the difficulties, but saw that if the difficulties are overcome, if the obstacles are overcome, there is a ray of hope for the solution of the Kurdish problem and the provision of Kurdish existence and freedom. Embracing this light of hope, he made his Leadership debut. He directed himself to such a difficult struggle.
While doing this, he clearly determined for himself: There is no other way to live humanely. There was no other way for the Kurdish people to exist humanely and attain a free life. Moreover, there was no other way, no chance for a humane life, a free and equal life, and a democratic system to exist in the world. It was not possible to change or overcome the global capitalist modernity system based on the hegemonic, exploitative, slave-owning and oppressive five-thousand-year-old power and state system, on the contrary, to reach a free life and democratic system on the basis of women’s freedom, and to create an alternative free and democratic life without solving the Kurdish problem.
There was no other chance for the realization of the world revolution, the democratic and freedom revolution, the creation of an alternative world, so that people in the world could have a free and democratic life. The solution of the Kurdish problem was a necessary and necessary thing for the realization of all these. By bringing all these to consciousness, it embarked on the struggle for the solution of such a problem on the basis of meeting the difficulties and aiming to overcome the obstacles. He took it upon himself to develop that struggle, to lead, to lead such a struggle. He decided for himself. He accepted such leadership and entered this struggle on the basis of them.
What does all this mean? Leader Apo knew that the struggle was full of obstacles, that it would develop with difficulty, that he wanted great courage and sacrifice, that every step would throw a thousand and one obstacles in front of him from inside and outside, and that he would face all kinds of capitulationist-treasonist, colonialist-imperialist attacks. He formed his understanding of struggle accordingly. He developed his line of struggle on this basis. He formed his own fighting style accordingly.
He always envisaged this: to develop the opportunity and opportunities, even if they are only one percent, to develop the revolutionary struggle in a manner as if digging a well with a needle, to carry out the daily work as if it will always be faced with an obstacle, attack, annihilation, and to be open to it. was the basic approach. With the aim of achieving victory, he entered the struggle with his understanding and belief, with the aim of solving the Kurdish problem by bringing the light of hope to success. He predicted that at any moment he might encounter an attack and be destroyed. He conducted his affairs on the line of victory. It was also prepared to face an exterminator attack at any moment. This was Leader Apo’s understanding and philosophy, his style of struggle and his life were formed accordingly. He always expressed that. To the public, cadres, what understanding and style should be adopted by those who want to fight to solve the Kurdish problem in Kurdistan, He also said this openly in order to make the guerrilla grasp it. In this sense, he always evaluated that similar attacks could happen, it was clear.
It has been subjected to similar attacks at various times. He always let them go. First of all, he established his style on the basis of preventing such attacks from reaching him. He organized and trained his personality accordingly. He arranged his life accordingly. He created his lifestyle and work style accordingly. So much so that the attacks that could happen at any moment should not have reached him. He acted very carefully and sensitively so that such attacks would not be successful. He always had a disciplined and organized approach. On this basis, he said, “We stopped that kind of order lives.” He directed himself entirely to such a new life, to his style. He disciplined, trained and organized himself accordingly. In fact, in this way, he thwarted many attacks up to the international conspiracy. He failed internal infiltrations such as the pilot and the like,
Leader Apo has always lived and struggled in a way that will successfully solve the Kurdish problem. He planned it. He organized it accordingly. He developed the strategy and tactics of the struggle accordingly. But he always predicted and assumed that attacks could be encountered, that he could defeat blows, that he could be faced with annihilation attack at all levels, including himself. He kept it on the agenda as a possibility. He stated that he would be successful if such work was done on this basis, but he saw himself as being attacked at any moment.
On the basis of these, he formed the understanding, line, strategy and tactics of struggle. He brought up the resistance process aiming to develop the youth movement in Kurdistan since 1976, and to defend himself on the basis of partisanship and self-defense after the murder of Comrade Haki Karer on May 18, 1977. The agency envisaged a strategy of struggle on the basis of revolutionary violence against institutions and individuals, and the process of becoming a party took place successfully with the struggle carried out on the basis of such a strategy. He predicted that it was necessary and necessary to resist the fascist-military attack on a guerrilla basis by forming fronts in Kurdistan and Turkey against the September 12 fascist-military coup, which was developed to prevent this and crush the revolutionary developments, and that all developments could only be achieved with this, he believed in this and directed himself with all his might to develop such a guerrilla resistance. He started the guerrilla breakthrough on August 15, 1984 by correcting the deficiencies and mistakes on this basis, and tried to ensure its successful development by preventing all kinds of oppression and defeat.
It was Leader Apo’s style that first nullified the enemy’s 1987-’88 global planned attack. Later, it was Leader Apo who nullified and failed the 1992 Southern War offensive. As a result of these, he evaluated the developments in the world and the region and declared the First Unilateral Armistice in March 1993, paving the way for the democratic political solution process of the Kurdish question. He evaluated that success can be achieved by working with the democratic political struggle strategy as a new strategy. He predicted that the war revealed the problem, that this was sufficient, and that the solution should be realized through democratic politics, and he turned to such a struggle process.
When the enemy responded with an all-out fascist-genocidal annihilation attack, it developed a guerrilla and popular resistance, and put up a ruthless resistance. He failed all those vigilante approaches. The vigilante genocidal attacks developed by people like Doğan Güreş, Tansu Çiller and Mehmet Ağar and coordinated by Demirel were nullified. It failed.
As a result of all this, he developed some tactical plans between ’95-98 in order to reach a ceasefire process that would pave the way for a democratic political solution. When he could not achieve the desired result with these, he evaluated the situation in ’98 and decided that it was necessary to carry out the process with a ceasefire, and that resisting with the existing style would not yield any results, and he resolutely turned to the 1 September 1998 ceasefire process. He did these things to overcome the existing stalemate, to clear the blockage, and to pave the way for a democratic political solution to the Kurdish question. His orientation was on this basis.
HE STRIVES TO BRING THE CONSTRUCTION DEAD
Against this, when faced with the September 17 Washington Agreement, and then conspiratorial attacks involving the pressure on Hafez Assad’s administration led by Egypt and Turkey, he evaluated the situation on the basis of this approach. They responded to the ceasefire with conspiratorial repression and attacks. In fact, they had promised a positive approach. Therefore, on the basis of continuing the process he started in ’93 in order to nullify them, he responded positively to the calls and attempts to leave Europe. In fact, he wanted to dry the ground for the conspiracy by developing the ceasefire and democratic political solution process, and to make it unsuccessful before he even took action. So he was trying to get the conspiracy to be born dead, but it was a little late. Taking advantage of the ceasefire position, the conspiratorial forces quickly took action by planning and organizing themselves. They started the process of repression and attack. Leader Apo also found it more appropriate to go to Europe in order to deepen and make successful the political solution process that he started in ’93 but could not continue in order to develop the process he started with the ceasefire of September 1, ’98 in line with his aims. His preparations were on that basis. Various European circles have always made such calls. Europe was supposedly democratic, and European politics always expressed that they were in favor of a democratic solution.
On the other hand, European politics created the Kurdish problem. It emerged as a result of the Anglo-German war. Kurdistan was ignored in the map of the Middle East drawn by Britain and France. Britain and France signed treaties such as the Treaty of Lausanne, which ignored Kurdistan, envisaged its destruction, and opened the doors to them. Therefore, Europe brought the Kurdish question to light. It would be more logical and correct for the solution to develop on Europe. He wanted to give them an opportunity, to correct their historical mistakes. He wanted to see how sincere they are and what they can do for a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem within this framework.
LEADER APO PREFERED THE DIFFICULT
In fact, Leader Apo has always been in an evaluation with two alternatives. He expressed this at length in the defenses and in the following processes. These were coming to the country and going out to Europe. It was too late to arrive in the country. In fact, it was a situation that could have happened in the early ’90s. He made it clear in defense as well. The process had changed a little. He evaluated that his arrival in the country under the conditions of ’98 would not create opportunities like in the beginning of ’90, on the contrary, it could deepen the conflict more negatively. As a result of the process he developed since ’93, he wanted to go to Europe to try and test the messages given and to pave the way for a democratic political solution of the Kurdish problem on this basis, to develop his practice through Europe. So he turned to Europe. But of course, he never lost his attention and sensitivity. Because it was not clear what the situation would be. It was based on the solution of the Kurdish problem and this world created the Kurdish problem. Because they took advantage of it, they continued the problem, they did not solve it. Therefore, it was a known situation that efforts to solve the Kurdish problem would encounter obstacles, steps taken in this direction would be hindered, and those who made efforts in this direction would be confronted. It was not an easy task. Going to Europe and seeking a political solution to the Kurdish problem was the most difficult. Leader Apo preferred the difficult one. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. It was based on the solution of the Kurdish problem and this world created the Kurdish problem. Because they took advantage of it, they continued the problem, they did not solve it. Therefore, it was a known situation that efforts to solve the Kurdish problem would encounter obstacles, steps taken in this direction would be hindered, and those who made efforts in this direction would be confronted. It was not an easy task. Going to Europe and seeking a political solution to the Kurdish problem was the most difficult. Leader Apo preferred the difficult one. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. It was based on the solution of the Kurdish problem and this world created the Kurdish problem. Because they took advantage of it, they continued the problem, they did not solve it. Therefore, it was a known situation that efforts to solve the Kurdish problem would encounter obstacles, steps taken in this direction would be hindered, and those who made efforts in this direction would be confronted. It was not an easy task. Going to Europe and seeking a political solution to the Kurdish problem was the most difficult. Leader Apo preferred the difficult one. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. Therefore, it was a known situation that efforts to solve the Kurdish problem would encounter obstacles, steps taken in this direction would be hindered, and those who made efforts in this direction would be confronted. It was not an easy task. Going to Europe and seeking a political solution to the Kurdish problem was the most difficult. Leader Apo preferred the difficult one. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. Therefore, it was a known situation that efforts to solve the Kurdish problem would encounter obstacles, steps taken in this direction would be hindered, and those who made efforts in this direction would be confronted. It was not an easy task. Going to Europe and seeking a political solution to the Kurdish problem was the most difficult. Leader Apo preferred the difficult one. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult. It was also difficult to establish a revolutionary party in Kurdistan, the Leadership overcame this challenge and succeeded. It was also very difficult to organize and develop the guerrilla in Kurdistan. With the breakthrough of August 15, 1984, the leadership developed the guerrilla and became the leader and succeeded in the difficult.
Getting to Europe in ’98 was also difficult. The search for a political solution to the Kurdish problem was full of difficulties, but there was still a ray of hope, and he faced the challenge again to evaluate it and decided and realized the attempt to exit to Europe, which also tested the European system. As we stated, he was always careful and sensitive, as he knew it was difficult. He was always on guard against possible attacks. This becomes the basis of Leader Apo’s style of struggle. Therefore, when faced with the first obstacle in Greece, he predicted not going back immediately, but going forward. Going to Russia actually thwarted the October 9 plot. October 9 prevented its destruction.
With the departure to Rome, the realization of a democratic-political solution to the Kurdish problem in the eyes of the European Union came to the fore. He had the opportunity to impose this on European democracy. It was actually an important process. There were many possibilities to nullify and defeat the conspiracy, but all the reactionary attacks attacked it like carrion crows. They made the D’Alema administration almost suffocating. Italy’s fascists made all kinds of threats with the power and support they received from the Turkish Republic. There was a lot of pressure both on Leader Apo and on the Italian administration. In order to eliminate these pressures, he agreed to leave Rome with the understanding of not forcing his friends.
The negative development of the process occurred with Leader Apo’s exit from Rome. Because exit was like a flashback. He came back to Rome, was returning to Russia. All sorts of reactionary, conspiratorial plans could have been made there. It was necessary to take them much better into account. Leader Apo also said that he evaluated him, and in his defenses he stated that he was given assurances on behalf of the Russian state. He revealed that he would not make such a comeback without such clear assurances.
HE FAILED WITH OWN FIGHTING STYLE
They say cheating a lot in the Ottoman Empire. There is a lot of cheating in the power and state system. Everything in the capitalist modernity system is built on lies, cheats and games. Therefore, the trick worked there and they managed to control Leader Apo on his return to Russia. Under this control, they wanted to destroy in Greece, Belarus, Kenya. Leader Apo prevented all these with a very careful and sensitive approach. With his own fighting style, he failed all kinds of conspiratorial annihilation attacks. It was on this basis that the February 15 conspiracy was arrived at. On the way to February 15, it was actually narrowed down. He was disconnected from all sides. He had no connection with the organization, with the public. Of course, seeing and preventing February 15 was the job of the outside, other forces, the Movement and the people rather than Leader Apo. The process evolved into the February 15 conspiracy.
With what kind of consciousness, emotion and action did the people, the Movement and its friends react to the period from 9 October to 15 February 1999?
What was the attitude of the Movement and the people in such a process? We must state this: Leader Apo led the struggle against the October 9 plot alone. After he went to Russia, he deciphered the plot. He made an assessment and called for public awareness. People poured into the streets to embrace Leader Apo. It developed in parts of Kurdistan as well as in Europe. More importantly, the revolutionaries and patriots immediately felt the reality imposed on Leader Apo as of 9 October and took action to claim Leader Apo.
This process started with comrades Halit Oral and Aynur Artan. These comrades took action in the dungeons with the slogan “You Can’t Darken Our Sun”. It was a sacrifice stance, a resistance. It spread outward, all over the dungeons. In parts of Kurdistan and abroad, including Russia, dozens of self-defeating actions were developed. This was the implementation of the Zilan line.
In fact, Zîlan was the first to start claiming Leader Apo with his action in Dersim on 30 June 1996. It was responding to the destruction attack on Leader Apo on May 6, 1996. Therefore, Zîlan revealed that the resistance to embrace and defend Leader Apo must be self-sacrificing. Zîlan created his bouncer line, paved the way. On October 9, revolutionary militants along the Zîlan line, guerrillas on the mountains, youth, people and women in the streets developed the “You Can’t Darken Our Sun” resistance resistance.
They heard and felt the truth of leadership. They went through an extremely difficult and tense process. Every time Leader Apo made a call, they filled the squares. They enhanced the bouncer actions. They formed a defensive circle of fire around Leader Apo. This has not been seen in any movement, in the public. No such method has been used to defend any leadership. This was happening for the first time in Kurdistan as well as in the world. These have affected everyone on varying degrees. There was a great resistance, and this attitude and resistance gave Leader Apo the greatest support in the failure of the conspiracy that was intended to be accomplished on October 9th until February 15th.
THERE WERE ERRORS AND DEFECTS
It should be noted that more than four months of conspiracy was rendered unsuccessful and unsuccessful. Extermination attacks such as February 15 or October 9 were averted. It became clear that the conspiracy could be foiled and prevented with the right approach and struggle. If the process had been directed better, if the truth of the Leader had been better understood, if the Leader’s separation from the people and the Movement had not been allowed, February 15 could certainly have been prevented. The fight against international conspiracy could have been developed in different forms, with more successful methods. This process proved it. There were errors and omissions here. Leader Apo’s break with the organization and the people could not be prevented. The danger of this could not be seen by the organization. There is no fault of the people in this. The flaw was definitely in the Movement. The organization did not see the danger of breaking with the Leader. Therefore, he could not fully understand the reality of the conspiracy and the danger it entails, and unite with the Leader’s struggle against it. Leadership remained disconnected from reality. If February 15, ’99 couldn’t be prevented, that’s why it couldn’t. In fact, if there was no break, if the organization and the people were directed to the struggle in full unity with the struggle waged by Leader Apo, the February 15 kidnapping action could have been deciphered and prevented. Here, there was a deficiency in the organization. Leader Apo defined this deficiency as “false friendship and insufficient comradeship” and clearly stated that this served the success of the conspiracy, the realization of February 15, and left the struggle against the conspiracy weak. It was on this basis that the so-called “Insufficient Fellowship” took place. Leader Apo and the “You Can’t Darken Our Sun” resisters carried out the right and successful struggle of the process that prevented destruction. The organizational structure, which could not sufficiently integrate with them, could not prevent the development of the February 15 conspiracy. If that inadequacy had been overcome and had not happened, February 15, 1999 could certainly have been prevented, and the struggle against the conspiracy could have been carried out more successfully with different methods.
The international conspiracy built the Imrali torture and isolation system. What kind of reality does the Imrali genocide system represent in the conspiracy attack against the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle? Why was it founded and is it still standing today?
First of all, we need to focus on the February 15 plot, that is, Leader Apo’s abduction from Kenya and his handing over to Turkey. For this reason, some fell into such an optimistic error as to say, “This was done to solve the Kurdish problem in the Imrali environment.” Some said, “When the USA handed over Leader Apo to Turkey, it stipulated that he should not be executed.” In other words, very different opinions were put forward on this kidnapping and surrendering event. All such views are wrong and insufficient. So what is real? The USA, which wanted to destroy Leader Apo by shooting him on October 9, failed to do so until February 15, 1999, and this time he envisioned his execution by handing him over to Turkey in return for some bargaining, and his annihilation on this basis. This is the real situation. There should be absolutely no hesitation in this regard. Those who have doubts about this For those who express different views, we have to ask: Well, what was intended to be done on October 9, 1998? Leader Apo wanted to be taken to Europe? If it was, it had already happened, but it was not claimed. Why wasn’t it taken over? Was the aim to take Leader Apo to Europe? No. In fact, it would be destroyed in a way that was cut off from this world, from the ruling and statist world system, by not being taken out of Syria and brought into Greece.
In this case, neither Syria nor Greece would bear the responsibility. Why? Because Syria came out of me and left. I don’t know where it went. I have no responsibilities,” he would say. Greece, on the other hand, had not taken it into their country anyway, so no one could hold Greece responsible for it. There was no record. The October 9 plot was so planned that the Leadership was completely cut off from the formality and legality of the global power and state system. So he would be shot. Of course, who would be shot? No one would even know where or how he was shot.
Does the US carry out such operations? He does. He later did. In fact, the beginning of his later operations was the October 9 plot against Leader Apo. Others couldn’t help it. Some were destroyed. When Leader Apo could not enter Greece, he did not return to Syria again, thus nullifying the October 9 plot. Now, if we are to evaluate October 9 like this, then the views such as the USA handed over Leader Apo to Turkey in order to solve the Kurdish issue for the February 15 conspiracy or handed him over on condition that he would not be executed will have no meaning, validity or value. He already wanted to destroy it. Unsuccessful, he eventually handed over some of his interests to Turkey by agreement on the basis of satisfaction. He knew very well that without prolonging the current Turkish laws, he would execute Leader Apo. Thus, the United States, that is, who planned, decided, carried out the conspiracy, The wishes of the powers that wanted to succeed would have come true. The US administration at that time had no concerns when handing over Leader Apo to Turkey. In any case, no treaty could have prevented the execution. Moreover, the conspirators did not have such an approach. The conspirators already wanted to destroy Leader Apo. Who could not destroy it by shooting, this time they had foreseen to be destroyed by the method of execution. This fact should be well known. Considering the events that followed, it should not be misjudged that Leader Apo was handed over to Turkey and the İmralı process. Who could not destroy it by shooting, this time they had foreseen to be destroyed by the method of execution. This fact should be well known. Considering the events that followed, it should not be misjudged that Leader Apo was handed over to Turkey and the İmralı process. Who could not destroy it by shooting, this time they had foreseen to be destroyed by the method of execution. This fact should be well known. Considering the events that followed, it should not be misjudged that Leader Apo was handed over to Turkey and the İmralı process.
IN RESPONSE TO SUPPORT TO IRAQ OCCUPATION
So, what was this deal for? Everyone knows that now too. TC against the invasion attack of the USA against Baghdad. Leader Apo was given to Turkey on February 15, 1999 in return for the support of his state. When Leader Apo was outside, at the beginning of the struggle, the US was afraid to attack Baghdad. PKK activity develops in Southern Kurdistan and Iraq, Leader Apo fights against such an intervention, so he feared that it would undermine the occupying hegemony of the USA, and predicted that Leader Apo would be neutralized as a precaution before the invasion attack on Baghdad. In order to achieve this, he initiated and carried out the international conspiracy launched on October 9, 1998. Whoever could not destroy it by the method of bringing him to death, this time he wanted to deliver Leader Apo to Turkey in the form of a February 15 conspiracy and to carry out this with the method of execution. TC in exchange for the delivery of Leader Apo to Turkey. His state would not oppose a possible US attack on Baghdad, but would support it. That was the promise made to the USA. In return for the delivery of Leader Apo to Turkey, TC. His state would also support the US invasion of Baghdad.
As a matter of fact, when Turkey did not keep its promise and did not support the invasion attack of the USA, the USA and TC. relations between them became very tense. There was even a period of almost mutual conflict. The US administration responded to his retaliation by putting a sack over the heads of Turkish officers in Iraq and arresting them. It went all the way to a conflict of this level. This means that the USA had already planned an invasion attack on Baghdad. For him, the international conspiracy attack against Leader Apo was a ground preparation. The September 11 Twin Tower attack was the second ground-breaking. As a result, since 2003 Newroz, the USA has launched an invasion attack on Baghdad in a very safe way, based on the promise it received from Turkey. While one of his forces was advancing from the Gulf, he planned to take another force from the North and take Baghdad from the north and south in a short time. In order to realize this, the US soldiers moving to Iskenderun via the Mediterranean, TC. The AKP government of that time rejected the state.
Therefore, before the establishment of the Imrali torture and isolation system, the fact that the February 15 conspiracy was an execution attack should be seen. This was a planned attack on Leader Apo’s execution. İmralı was prepared only as a suitable place for the execution of these processes. It was envisaged that this place would function in this way during the time period when the show trial and execution would take place.
LEADER APO PREVENTED THE EXECUTION
Of course, the process later changed. Leader Apo nullified the method of extermination of the conspirator, as well as the execution method of the February 15 conspiracy. Evaluating the conspiracy, revealing the dimensions of the conspiracy against the Turkish state and society, he waged an intense struggle within Turkey and prevented the execution by convincing various segments of the state and society on this issue. As a matter of fact, Bülent Ecevit, who was the Prime Minister when Leader Apo was abducted from Kenya and taken to Turkey, admitted this by saying, “Why did the USA give Apo to us, I could not understand it”. What kind of hesitation they experienced was revealed with this confession. Leader Apo developed his evaluations from here and stated that the conspiracy aimed at an endless Turkish-Kurdish war, and from this, TC. His state and society will be at least as harmful as the Kurds,
DEFINITION AND POLITICAL EXTERMINATION WITHOUT EXECUTION
The forces that wanted to be executed fell into the minority in Turkey. Many powers evaluated that the execution was to the detriment of the Turkish state and society. Instead of execution, they sought ways to destroy and neutralize Leader Apo in another way. They found it more useful for them. They discussed and evaluated. In the end, they preferred the other method, not the execution. What was the other method? It was a policy of refutation. It was a policy of rebuttal within the Imrali torture and isolation system. Leader Apo called it the “Imrali struggle”. They were not aiming to physically execute Leader Apo, but to destroy Imrali intellectually and politically within the torture and isolation system of Imrali. Otherwise, let those who make up the Imrali system, Leader Apo live, work, produce new ideas, develop the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle, let the peoples of the world, women, youth, they did not hold it so that they could produce new ideas and contribute to the freedom and democracy struggle of the oppressed. The Imrali system was not created like that. On the contrary, the Imrali system, unable to physically execute Leader Apo, and seeing the execution as harmful to their own interests, TC. It was organized and arranged as a method, a tool that would enable the State to destroy Leader Apo intellectually and politically.
There was the Aegean Army Commander Hurşit Tolon. He played a role in the preparation of the Imrali system. That person said, “Don’t worry, we have created such a system that Apo will thank the death penalty, the death penalty will kill him once, Apo will die a thousand times every day in the Imrali system.” The Imrali system is such a system. The implementation system of the refutation policy is the system of ensuring the intellectual and political destruction of a power that cannot be physically destroyed. İmralı was prepared and formed completely in line with these purposes and according to the methods that will achieve these goals. Leader Apo was also included in such a system.
This means that those who created the Imrali system envisioned it as a system that would enable to destroy Leader Apo a thousand times a day spiritually, intellectually, emotionally and mentally when he could not physically destroy it. They arranged Imrali as the place where Leader Apo would be finished intellectually and politically. As a matter of fact, Leader Apo defined this system as “coffin holder”. He considered it a new place and method of killing for himself. What result was desired to be obtained from Imrali in this way?
* Leader Apo would be destroyed intellectually and politically, defeated and rendered ineffective.
* Based on it, the PKK would be liquidated, thus the Kurdish struggle for existence and freedom would be destroyed, and the Kurdish genocide would be carried out on this basis.
* İmralı would be turned into a place where the Kurdish genocide was carried out, where the Kurdish resistance, spirit of freedom, consciousness and will were destroyed, buried in history, and therefore the genocide would take place. It would be the place where Kurd was finished. The will of existence and freedom would not be left in the Kurdish society. Kurdishness and freedom would be buried in Imrali and destroyed in Imrali.
THIS ALSO WAS LEFT TOGETHER
The İmralı system was created for just such a purpose. Of course, the developments were the opposite. We cannot say that “this was not the aim of the Imrali system” just because the developments were the opposite. Yes, developments have been the opposite of this purpose. How was this reverse situation brought about? It was revealed with a great struggle. Just as the method of extermination of October 9 was rendered ineffective, and the execution method of February 15 was rendered ineffective, the policy of refuting the torture and isolation system of Imrali was also rendered futile. By whom? It was vacated by Leader Apo. The Freedom Movement, which was united around Leader Apo, was wasted by the Kurdish people, their women and youth.
Leader Apo’s struggle for existence and freedom against the Imrali torture and isolation system, the policy of corruption, against the genocidal system was carried out very effectively in the conditions of Imrali, and the aims of those who created the Imrali system were frustrated. Leader Apo, PKK won the Imrali struggle. The colonial-genocidal forces that formed the Imrali system lost the Imrali struggle and were defeated. This is an obvious fact. Leader Apo waged a highly conscious and planned struggle in the torture and isolation system of Imrali. No one believed it. Many patriots and intellectuals gathered around the Movement were saying that this is not the case. There are no circles that consider themselves revolutionary-democrats, he said. They considered that Leader Apo’s will to fight in Imrali was a method that would not be realized and could not be achieved.
LEADER APO MAKES WHAT IS TOLD TO BE POSSIBLE
As a matter of fact, Leader Apo wanted a chance when entering such a struggle. He requested support from the organization and the public. “We have no other choice,” he said. The PKK administration, its organization and the Kurdish people were severely criticized by many circles for saying yes and supporting Leader Apo’s demand. They didn’t mind. “Will there be a struggle in Imrali? In such a place, the struggle for Kurdish existence and freedom cannot be developed by fighting against the state, colonialist mentality and politics.” They were assessing that this would never happen. Leader Apo made possible what they didn’t see possible. He made what he said impossible to happen. He did what they didn’t think. It revealed a struggle that would nullify all the aims and objectives of those who prepared the Imrali system.
He did this with his extremely faithful, disciplined life and work. He read, studied, concentrated. It broke all the effects of dogmatism and stereotyping. He handled the process well. It generated new ideas. Making use of the scarce European Court of Human Rights processes, he was able to put their concentration in writing in the form of defenses and deliver them to the Movement and the public. Thus, he changed and transformed the PKK. He created innovations, produced new ideas. Thus, İmralı defeated its policy of rebuttal. It was the Ecevit government that implemented this policy. The main goal of this government was to enter the European Union. He supposedly wanted to solve the Kurdish problem on the basis of individual rights of the European Union and to frustrate the PKK and Leader Apo’s search for a solution in the form of democratic rights of the Kurdish people. For this, the Ecevit Government did all kinds of work. He ran the Assembly like a factory. He developed all kinds of restrictions on Leader Apo.
In the end, Leader Apo succeeded in generating new ideas. He succeeded in putting his ideas in writing and conveying them to the Movement and the public through the court. Thus, Ecevit’s government’s line of realizing the Kurdish genocide by saying “I have solved the Kurdish problem” over individual rights, which expresses entry into the European Union, was nullified. He was defeated. Instead, Free Kurdistan developed the Democratic Middle East solution. He revealed the solution line, program, strategy and tactics of the Kurdish problem throughout the Middle East. He expressed this broadly in his defense, “From the Sumerian Priest State to Democratic Civilization.” He showed that the Kurdish problem can be resolved freely on the basis of the democratization of the Middle East and the development of a new democratic civilization based in the Middle East, and that this will be the case. He put forward the Democratic Middle East Free Kurdistan program. Thus, the Ecevit government’s insolvency under the name of “individual rights solution” within the framework of the European Union was nullified and defeated. This is how Leader Apo won the battle of Imrali. The movement and the people gave full support to this struggle of Leader Apo. All circles who said that this would not happen were opposed. They were fought against. As Leader Apo’s efforts proved successful, those circles saw that they were wrong. Once again, they changed and tended to gather around the struggle developed by Leader Apo and the PKK, and to gain strength and support from that struggle. The movement and the people gave full support to this struggle of Leader Apo. All circles who said that this would not happen were opposed. They were fought against. As Leader Apo’s efforts proved successful, those circles saw that they were wrong. Once again, they went through a change and turned to gather around the struggle developed by Leader Apo and the PKK, and to gain strength and support from that struggle. The movement and the people gave full support to this struggle of Leader Apo. All circles who said that this would not happen were opposed. They were fought against. As Leader Apo’s efforts proved successful, those circles saw that they were wrong. Once again, they went through a change and turned to gather around the struggle developed by Leader Apo and the PKK, and to gain strength and support from that struggle.
This means that the Imrali system was established to carry out the Kurdish genocide and to bury the Kurdish will for existence and freedom in history. Leader Apo nullified this with his struggle. The struggle he waged with the support of the movement and the people was successful. These aims of the conspirators and those who created the Imrali torture and isolation system were in vain.
THE IMRALI FIGHT IS ACTUALLY COMPLETED
Well, the question of why it is still standing despite all this is important. If you pay attention, the battle for Imrali has actually been completed. The refutation policy has failed. The goal of burying the Kurdish will of existence and freedom in the Imrali coffin was defeated. Leader Apo and the Kurds won the Imrali struggle. On this basis, the Imrali torture and isolation system was broken up. Leader Apo produced his thoughts and carried them out. The PKK renewed itself, the Kurdish people educated and restructured themselves on the basis of Leader Apo’s democratic-ecological-women libertarian paradigm and developed the freedom struggle with great courage and self-sacrifice for 24 years.
This situation was not limited to the PKK and the Kurdish people. It spread to the peoples of the Middle East, especially the Turkish, Arab, Persian, Armenian and Assyrian peoples, and to women, youth, workers, laborers and all revolutionary-democratic forces all over the world. The leadership stance became universal in the Imrali struggle. It also crossed national borders. Thus, the Imrali genocide system was disintegrated. The Imrali torture and isolation system was defeated and made unsuccessful.
THE MENTALITY OF THE KURD’S denial and extermination has not changed
Why is this system still standing? Because despite all this, racist-chauvinist Turkish nationalism still has not given up on the Kurdish genocide, as it became more concrete in the person of the AKP-MHP fascist dictatorship. He still calculates that he will create opportunities and opportunities, find a way and a method, and carry out the Kurdish genocide. The Imrali torture and isolation system was shattered. Leader Apo won a great intellectual and political victory in Imrali, but these have not yet turned into enough organizations and actions abroad, in Kurdistan, in the Middle East and in the world. Therefore, the change and transformation required by the democratic modernity line did not take place in Turkey, in the Middle East, and in the world. Therefore, the democratic solution of the Kurdish question has not yet been politically realized. Therefore, the system that created the Kurdish problem and tried to benefit from it, Although it is not as much as before, it still exists even if it is broken and pierced. Still trying to activate itself. It is still continuing the Kurdish problem and trying to profit from it. Therefore, the mentality and politics of the global capitalist modernity system that created the Kurdish problem did not change. The mentality that denies and annihilates the Kurds has not changed.
The same thing means the continuation of the racist, chauvinist, nationalist, anti-Kurdish mentality and politics in Turkey. For these reasons, the Imrali genocide system, torture and isolation system are being tried to be continued. Secondly, it is feared that Leader Apo will be more involved in the process. He is afraid of his opinion. Their views on political, social, cultural and military events in Turkey, the Middle East and the world frighten the global capitalist modernity system and the colonialist-genocidal Turkish system. Because it analyzes very accurately and deeply. Leader Apo understands very well. It deals with and understands the historical depth and the global dimension together. It puts the problems right. He evaluates the events accurately and holistically. Most importantly, it offers possible, correct, democratic solution methods to all these events. And this frightens and forces the system of capitalist modernity and nation-state fascist reaction. It means raising awareness of women, youth, workers and laborers, the Kurdish people, humanity, and therefore organizing and fighting against them. In order to prevent these, they continue the Imrali torture and isolation system because they fear the organizing, educating and motivating power of the Leader’s thoughts and want to prevent this.
Third, they hold it as a natural scarecrow. For 24 years, the Imrali torture and isolation system has been carried on along the lines of genocide. There has been no news from Leader Apo for 19 months. No rule of law or moral principle is applied there. Totally fascist. The wishes of the AKP-MHP fascist dictatorship are coming true. Tayyip Erdoğan, Devlet Bahçeli personalities reveal their dictatorship with the practices here. They consider the Imrali torture and isolation system as a show of power, as a means of superiority. All these reveal that the Imrali torture system and keeping Leader Apo in that system were intended to be kept alive as a scarecrow. Therefore, the current Imrali system is a threat to everyone, to every Kurdish person. It’s a scare tool.
At the same time, for every revolutionary and democrat of Turkey, it is a threat to Turks who want to comrade with the Kurds and be in solidarity. In fact, it is a threat to all humanity. It is a threat to all revolutionary, democratic, socialist people. “Look, this is what we do to those who oppose us. We have so much power and influence. They are trying to spread fear by saying that we will make those who oppose this. In this way, they want to distract people from the struggle. They want to break their will to fight and weaken their consciousness.
DEFEATED AGAINST IMRALI RESISTANCE
Finally, some say, “They are holding Leader Apo as hostage. Therefore, they want to take advantage of this system of oppression and torture, not for the solution of the Kurdish problem, but for the liquidation of the freedom forces.” I don’t give him much of a chance. Because those walls have already been breached. What kind of personality Leader Apo is has become clear with the struggle he has waged for 50 years and the development line of this struggle. For 24 years, Imrali has drawn a line in the torture and isolation system. He overcame the most difficult environments, obstacles, overcome difficulties. It has now become a reality. Therefore, I think that such a result will not come out of it. Those who manage and maintain the Imrali system now know and accept this well. There is not much hope left in that direction. However, even if they cannot get any results from Leader Apo, they try to give such an impression to the environment. To confuse them, they make a statement every now and then, “Apo is doing this, he is doing this, we are meeting with Apo like this”. They are trying to make this situation useful for them by making statements within the scope of special psychological warfare in order to weaken the struggle of the Kurdish society. They have become so weakened that they have come to rely on the consequences of such psychological warfare. Otherwise, they were defeated in all respects by the Imrali resistance, they are finished. They don’t have any inhibitions. But they still think that even a psychological warfare that will create a little confusion is beneficial for us. They have become that weak. We are meeting with Apo as follows.” They are trying to make this situation useful for them by making statements within the scope of special psychological warfare in order to weaken the struggle of the Kurdish society. They have become so weakened that they have come to rely on the consequences of such psychological warfare. Otherwise, they were defeated in all respects by the Imrali resistance, they are finished. They don’t have any inhibitions. But they still think that even a psychological warfare that will create a little confusion is beneficial for us. They have become that weak. We are meeting with Apo as follows.” They are trying to make this situation useful for them by making statements within the scope of special psychological warfare in order to weaken the struggle of the Kurdish society. They have become so weakened that they have come to rely on the consequences of such psychological warfare. Otherwise, they were defeated in all respects by the Imrali resistance, they are finished. They don’t have any inhibitions. But they still think that even a psychological warfare that will create a little confusion is beneficial for us. They have become that weak. They have become so weakened that they have come to rely on the consequences of such psychological warfare. Otherwise, they were defeated in all respects by the Imrali resistance, they are finished. They don’t have any inhibitions. But they still think that even a psychological warfare that will create a little confusion is beneficial for us. They have become that weak. They have become so weakened that they have come to rely on the consequences of such psychological warfare. Otherwise, they were defeated in all respects by the Imrali resistance, they are finished. They don’t have any inhibitions. But they still think that even a psychological warfare that will create a little confusion is beneficial for us. They have become that weak.
